2021 Georgia Code
Title 44 - Property
Chapter 14 - Mortgages, Conveyances to Secure Debt, and Liens
Article 8 - Liens
Part 5 - Pawnbrokers, Factors, Bailees, Acceptors, and Depositories
§ 44-14-409. Special Lien of Bailee for Hire of Labor and Service; Effect of Delivery of a Part
The bailee for hire of labor and service shall have a special lien for his labor and services upon the thing bailed until he parts with possession; and, if he delivers up a part of the thing bailed, the lien shall attach to the remainder in his possession for the entire claim under the same contract.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 2079; Code 1868, § 2074; Code 1873, § 2100; Code 1882, § 2100; Civil Code 1895, § 2918; Civil Code 1910, § 3491; Code 1933, § 12-710.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Bailments, §§ 175, 189, 190 et seq.
C.J.S.- 8 C.J.S., Bailments, § 80 et seq.
ALR.
- Necessity of notice to consignor to render him liable for demurrage, 32 A.L.R. 642.
Bailee's lien for work on goods as extending to other goods of the bailor in his possession, 25 A.L.R.2d 1037.