right of lien

The most important right is the right of lien over guests' property.

He must also have exercised his right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit.

However the supplier of bunker goods has the right of lien in the US.

Be aware, however, that they're likely to have a right of lien - that is, a right to keep your goods until they receive payment.

An innkeeper has a power of sale in relation to the goods over which he or she is exercising his or her right of lien.

'(1) Subject to this section, a contract of sale is not rescinded by the mere exercise by an unpaid seller of his right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit.'

Since the contract is not rescinded by the seller exercising his rights of lien or stoppage, the seller's obligations under the contract remain, including his obligation to deliver the goods against payment of the price.

'(2) Where an unpaid seller who has exercised his right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit re-sells the goods, the buyer acquires a good title to them as against the original buyer.'

Where an innkeeper exercises the right of lien over the property of a guest, the innkeeper owes to the guest whose property the innkeeper is retaining a duty to take reasonable care of the property in question.

'(1) Subject to this Act, the unpaid seller's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit is not affected by any sale, or other disposition of the goods which the buyer may have made, unless the seller has assented to it.

Lawful acquisition of possession by the buyer will deprive the seller of his rights of lien and stoppage and those rights will not revive even if the buyer later returns the goods to the possession of the seller.

An innkeeper, as we have seen, is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller; hence, the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller's property as well as over a guests' to ensure that the traveller's bill is duly paid.