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LIMITATION ACT 1969 - SECT 68

Possessory lien

68 Possessory lien

Notwithstanding this Division, where--

(a) a person is in possession of goods, and
(b) the person has a lien on the goods for a debt or other money claim payable by a second person,
the right and title of the first person to the debt or other money claim is, as against the second person and the second person's successors, saved from extinction under this Division for so long as a cause of action of the second person or of a person claiming through the second person for the conversion or detention of the goods or to recover the proceeds of sale of the goods has not accrued or is not barred by this Act, but only so far as is necessary to support and give effect to the lien.



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