common law lien on property recovered or preserved by the solicitor's efforts. This lien is admittedly a particular lien and not a general ... considered the third lien, namely the passive or retaining lien. Mr. Sinha first argued that this lien has never existed in India
appellant.
The question whether an agent can enforce his lien in a
particular case is a mixed question of law and facts. As a
general ... lien over the property where it is en-
trusted to him for a special purpose which is inconsistent
with the lien claimed. Further the lien
bailee's particular lien under Section 170; the lien of pawnee under Secs. 173 and 174; lastly the lien of agents on principal ... Banker's lien in respect of cash deposits, but the cases of different kinds of liens dealt within the Contract
guarantee and in such cases it is only a case of particular lien and not a case of general lien and therefore the amounts covered ... that the Bank claims and the Bank can claim only a particular lien for the bank guarantee. It also observed that since the Bank guarantee
exported by them.
2. In the circumstances this department will exercise a lien for General Balance of account in respect of wharfage. carnage, storage, demurrage ... filed with all requisite particulars in respect thereof.
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Docks Manager".
The Port Trust authorities claim a general lien under Section
words "Lien to BG 11/80" cannot have a bearing on the. banker's lien on the two FDRs. Merely because ... cannot be said that the banker had only a limited particular lien and not a general lien on the two FDRs. In our view this
consensual lien. The Act of 1872 recognises a bailee's particular lien
in Section 170 , general lien of bankers, factors, wharfingers,
attorneys and policy ... recognises the right of lien of a bailee. The right of lien
is limited to the particular goods bailed to the bailee and arise from
writing itself says that the negative lien was to constitute a security for the payment of the loan. Lien, strictly, is neither ... lien which are to be found in enactments such as the Companies Act , but most of the different kinds of lien, both particular and general
paragraphs 501-502) the concept of 'lien' is defined as under :
"The concept of lien in the simple sense of a legal ... authority for saying that a security given for a particular advance excludes a general lien, though this is doubted in a later case decided
rightly contended in this particular case that the applicant cannot claim any Banker's lien. The right if any, would be called right ... various securities the applicant could not claim any lien or set off. In that particular case, inter alia, the defendant bank had executed
