208 AGENTS AND FACTORS. [ART. 2"

1868, art. 2, sec. 13. 1860, art. 3, sec. 13. 1849, ch. 293, sec. 1.

13. Every mortgage, pledge, deposit or other disposal by
said commission merchant, factor, agent, bailee or consignee,
of such agricultural productions thus consigned for sale alone,
unless with the consent of the grower, producer or other owner,
expressly given, shall be null and void; and no title to said
articles, or any of them, shall pass to the person receiving the
same, but the title thereto shall remain in the grower, producer
or other consignor thereof, as if no such mortgage, pledge,
deposit or other disposal had been made.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1860, art. 3, sec. 14. 1849, ch. 293, sec. 2.

14. Whenever any commission merchant, factor, agent or
other consignee, shall be discharged under the insolvent laws
of this State, no agricultural produce which may have been,
consigned to him for sale, and which may be on hand at the
time of his application and discharge, not sold to a fair and
bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration, shall pass to
the trustee of said insolvent, or be in any wise answerable for
his debts; but all such agricultural produce so on hand at the
time of such application and discharge shall be the property
of the grower, producer or other owner who shall have con-
signed the same.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1860, art. 3, sec. 15. 1849, ch. 293, sec. 3.

15. Nothing contained in the three preceding sections shall
in any manner impair any right of lien which any commission
merchant, factor or agent may have acquired or be entitled to
for advances bona fide made, either in money or goods, to any
such grower, producer or owner, on the faith and security of
such consignment; but such right of lien shall remain as at
common law and mercantile usage.

Ibid sec. 16. I860, art. 3, sec 16. 1825, ch. 182, sec. 6.

16. Nothing contained in this article shall deprive any
principal or owner of goods, wares or merchandise, of any
remedy at law or in equity, which he might have against his
agent or factor on any matter or contract between them, or for
the violation of any engagement, duty or debt, for which such
agent or factor has heretofore been liable at law and in equity,
subject, nevertheless, to the right of such agent or factor to be
allowed the benefit of any payments of any debt or damages
received and paid from and on such contracts as aforesaid, by
any other person or body corporate.