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Bankers,
factors, wharfingers, attorneys of a High Court and policy-brokers may, in the absence of a 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 effect1
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1. As to lien of an agent, see s. 221, infra. As to lien of a Railway Administration, see the Indian Railways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890), s. 55.