GENERAL LIEN OF BANKERS, FACTORS, WHARFINGERS, ATTORNEYS AND POLICY BROKERS

Bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorneys of a high court and policy brokers may, in the absence of contract to the contrary, retain, as a
security for a general balance of account, any goods bailed to them; but no other persons have a right to retain, as a security for such
balance, goods bailed to them, unless there is an express contract to that effect.1
This section specifies the people who are entitled to general lien for security of general balance of account unless it is excluded by
specific contract. These are bankers, factors, warfingers, attorneys and policy brokers. No other person enjoys a general lien unless
specified in the contract.
GENERAL LIEN

A general lien is the right to retain the property of another for a general balance of accounts; but a particular lien is a right to retain it
only for a charge on account of labour employed or expenses bestowed upon the identical property detained.
It confers on the person who holds the lien the right to retain the goods until payment is made to him, but it does not gives the person
entitled to the lien the right of sale to secure the debt or indemnity. It merely creates a right to retain the goods, and does not create a
right like a pledgee has.2

CONCLUSION
The hypothesis taken by the researcher is proved correct it can be seen through the various chapters that the bailment is possible even without
a contract, the judgments of the Indian courts also are of the same opinion as explained above with the help of case laws and further there are
statutes that help to prove it,Section170 talks of lien and 171 talks of bailment where having a contract in advance is not necessary it specifies
the person who are entitled to bailment , it talks of bankers, factors, wharfingers, attorney.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1
2

SEC.171, INDIAN CONTRACT ACT 1872.

Alliance Bank of Simla Ltd v GhamandiLal-JainiLalAIR 1927 Lah 408.

CASES
Alliance Bank of Simla Ltd v Ghamandi Lal-Jaini Lal AIR 1927 Lah 408 .................................. 10
Bevan v Waters [1824-34] AII ER Rep 304 .................................................................................... 8
China Pacific S v Food Corpn of India (The Winson) [1982] AC 939, [1981] 3 All ER 688 ........ 5
Kalloomal Tapeshwari Prasad & Co v Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd AIR 1990 All 214 9
KH Enterprises v Pioneer Container [1994] 2 AC 324, [1994] 2 All ER 250 (PC) ...................... 6
Mitchel v London Borough of Ealing [1978] 2 All ER 779. ........................................................... 5
State of Gujarat v Memon Mahomed Haji Hasam[1967] 3 SCR 938, AIR 1967 SC 1885, (1968) 1 SCJ 273
Steadman v Hockley (1846) 15 M&W 553 ..................................................................................... 9
Syndicate Bank v Davendra Karkera AIR 1994 Kant 1 .................................................................. 8
Trustees of the Port of Bombay v Premier Automobiles LtdAIR 1981 SC 1982, (1981) 1 SCC 228 ..... 6
BOOKS

HALSBURY'S LAWS OF ENGLAND, 'BAILMENT', FOURTH EDN, REISSUE, VOL 2 ............................................ 7

HALSBURY'S LAWS OF ENGLAND, 'LIEN', FOURTH EDN, VOL 28 .................................................................. 8
STATUTE

Indian Contract Act,1872

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