See AGISTOR.
Factors, brokers, and commission agents, on goods and papers ; 3 Term 119 ; 1 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 437, n.; Spring v. Ins. Co., 8 Wheat. (U. S.) 268, 5 L. Ed. 614; Davis v. Bradley, 28 Vt. 118, 65 Am. Dec. 226; Sewall v. Nicholls, 34 Me. 582 ; Harrison v. Mora, 150 Pa. 481, 24 Atl. 705 ; Barnes • Safe & Lock Co. v. Bloch Bros. Tobacco Co., 38 W. Va. 158, 18 S. E. 482, 22 L. R. A. 850, 45 Am. St. Rep. 846 ; on part of the goods for the whole claim; 6 East 622 ; or on the proceeds of 'sale of the goods ; 5 B. & Ald. 27; Keiser v. Topping, 72 Ill. 226; Jar vis .v. Rogers, 15 Mass. 389 ; but only for such goods as come to them as factors ; 11 E. L. & Eq. 528; but not 'such as are deliv ered directly by the owner to the purchaser and do not come into possession of the fac tor ; Warren v. First Nat. Bank, 149 Ill. 9, 38 N. E. 122, 25 L. R. A. 746. If a factor dis obey instructions he loses his lien upon mon ey deposited with him as security ; Larmi nie v. Carley, 114 Ill. 196, 29 N. E. 382.
Garage. The keeper of a garage has a lien on the car if in his possession ; Cuneo v. Freeman, 137 N. Y. Supp. 885 ; but it is lost if he parts with possession ; Greene v. Fankhauser, 137 App. Div. 124, 121 N. Y. Supp. 1004.
Bankers, on all securities left with them by their customers ; 5 Term 488 ; Bank of the Metropolis v. Bank, 1 How. (U. S.) 234, 11 L. Ed. 115; Russell v. Hadduck, 3 Gilman (Ill.) 233, 44 Am. Dec. 693; but see West Branch Bank v. Chester, 11 Pa. 291, 51 Am. Dec. 547 ; but not on securities collateral to a specific loan ; L. R. 4 App. Cas. 413 ; Lane v. Bailey, 47 Barb. (N. Y.) 395; Brown v. Institution for Savings, 137 Mass. 262 ; or for debts not due; Commercial Nat. Bank v. Proctor, 98 Ill. 558 ; Jordan v. Bank, 74 N. Y. 467, 30 Am. Rep. 319 ; or on the ac count of a firm for the debt of a partner ; Lawrence v. Bank, 35 N. Y. 320; 11 Beay.
546.
A banker has a lien on a deposit to pay a matured note ; Pursifull v. Banking Co., 97 Ky. 154, 30 S. W. 203, 53 Am. pt. Rep. 409 ; McDowell v. Bank, 1 Hat (Del.) 369; Commercial Nat. Bank v. Henninger, 105 Pa. 496 ; contra, Second Nat. Bank of Lafay ette v. Hill, 76 Ind. 223, 40 Am. Rep. 239 ; Voss v. Bank, 83 III. 599, 25 Am. Rep. 415. An agreement that a deposit should remain in a bank until a certain note is paid gives the bank a lien on the deposit; Thompson v. Trust Co., 234 Pa. 452, 83 Atl. 284.
In Wynn v. Bank, 168 Ala. 469; 53 South. 228, it is said that the lien or claim of a bank on a deposit cannot be enforced in equity against the depositor, though in a proper sense it may be declared or recog nized; and that "lien" is inaptly applied to a general deposit which is the property of the bank itself.
That a bank has a lien to secure payment of its depositors' indebtedness, though not when the account is a trustee's account, see Wagner v. Bank, 122 Tenn. 164, 122 S. W. 245, 135 Am. St. Rep. 869, 19 Ann. Casa 483.
The Negotiable Instruments Act does not preclude setting off against an accommoda tion note held by an insolvent bank a sum deposited to the credit of the accommodation payee; Building & Engineering Co. v. Bank, 206 N. Y. 400, 99 N. E. 1044.
The lien of mechanics and material men upon a building or improvement in the con struction of which labor or material is used, exists only by virtue of the statutes creating it ; White Lake Lumber Co. v. Russell, 22 Neb. 126, 34 N. W. 104, 3 Am. St. Rep. 262. See mechanics' Hen, infra.
As to the lien of attorneys and other court othcers for fees, see attorneys' lien, infra.
As to liens, on the assets of insolvent per sons or corporations for wages of labor or service, which are purely statutory, having no relation to the common law idea of lien, see LABORER.