Provisions as to consignors

sale or pledge on his behalf shall be deemed to be an agreement with the agent. C.O., c. 40, s. 7.

8. Where the owner of goods has given possession of the and consignees goods to another person for the purpose of consignment or sale or has shipped the goods in the name of another person and the consignee of the goods has not had notice that such person is not the owner of the goods the consignee shall in respect of advances made to or for the use of such person have the same lien on goods as if such person were the owner of the goods and may transfer any such lien to another person.

(2) Nothing in this section shall limit or affect the validity of any sale, pledge or disposition by a mercantile agent. C.O., c. 40, s. 8.

DISPOSITIONS BY BUYERS AND SELLERS OF GOODS.

Disposition by seller remaining in possession

Disposition by buyer obtaining possession

Effect of transfer of

documents on vendor's lien or right of stoppage in transitu

9. Where a person having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to the goods the delivery or transfer by that person or by a mercantile agent acting for him of the goods or documents of title under any sale, pledge or other disposition thereof or under any agreement for sale, pledge or other disposition thereof to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorized by the owner of the goods to make the same. C.O., c. 40, s. 9.

10. Where a person having bought or agreed to buy goods obtains with the consent of the seller possession of the goods or the documents of title to the goods, the delivery or transfer by that person or by a mercantile agent acting for him of the goods or documents of title under any sale, pledge or other disposition thereof or under any agreement for sale, pledge or other disposition thereof to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of any lien or other right of the original seller in respect of the goods shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were a mercantile agent in possession of the goods or documents of title with the consent of the owner. C.O., c. 40, s. 10.

11. Where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to a person as buyer or owner of the goods and that person transfers the document to a person who takes the document in good faith and for valuable consideration the last mentioned transfer shall have the same effect for defeating any vendor's lien or right of stoppage in transitu as the transfer of a bill of lading has for defeating the right of stoppage in transitu. C.O., c. 40, s. 11.

SUPPLEMENTAL.

transferring

12. For the purpose of this Ordinance the transfer of a docu- Mode of ment may be by endorsement or where the document is by documents custom or by its express terms transferable by delivery or makes the goods deliverable to the bearer then by delivery. C.O., c. 40, s. 12.

13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall authorize an agent to Liability of exceed or depart from his authority as between himself and agent his principal or exempt him from any liability civil or criminal for so doing.

rights of

(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the owner of Saving for goods from recovering the goods from an agent or assignee true owner under an assignment for the benefit of creditors at any time before the sale or pledge thereof or shall prevent the owner of goods pledged by an agent from having the right to redeem the goods at any time before the sale thereof on satisfying the claim for which the goods were pledged and paying to the agent, if by him required, any money in respect of which the agent would by law be entitled to retain the goods or the documents of title thereto or any of them by way of lien as against the owner or from recovering from any person with whom the goods have been pledged any balance of money remaining in his hands as the produce of the sale of the goods after deducting the amount of his lien.

(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the owner of goods sold by an agent from recovering from the buyer the price agreed to be paid for the same or any part of that price subject to any right of set-off on the part of the buyer against the agent. C.O., c. 40, s. 13.

common law,

14. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be construed in Saving for amplification and not in derogation of the powers exercisable powers of agen by an agent independently of this Ordinance. C.O., c. 40, s. 14.

CHAPTER 41.

An Ordinance respecting Choses in Action.

(C.O., c. 41.)

Repealed by Section 8 of Chapter 5, 1907.

CHAPTER 42.

An Ordinance respecting Preferential Assignments.

(C.O., c. 42.)

Chapter 6, 1907, substituted; amended c. 4, s. 14, 1909.

Bills of sale, etc., on equipment of railway

CHAPTER 43.

An Ordinance respecting Mortgages and Sales of Personal

Property.

[NOTE. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bills of Sale Ordinance or in the Ordinance respecting Hire Receipts and Conditional Sales of Goods, and amendments thereto, any bill of sale, chattel mortgage, conditional sale, lease or other agreement of or respecting rolling stock and equipment for use on railways may be registered in the office of the registrar of joint stock companies for the province on payment of a fee of five dollars by filing in such office a copy thereof, certified by a notary public and by the secretary of the railway company the stock or equipment in connection with which is affected thereby, to be a true copy, and no other registration or filing shall be necessary, and upon being so filed the same shall be valid and effectual as if filed or registered in accordance with the provisions of the said Acts and amendments respectively, and no renewal thereof shall be required, and any discharge or partial discharge of any such bill of sale, chattel mortgage, conditional sale or other agreement may be registered in the said office in the same manner and on payment of a like fee.] 1909, c. 4, s, 3.

THE

HE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

Short title

Registration districts

Moosomin district

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Ordinance may be cited and known as "The Bills of Sale Ordinance." C.O., c. 43, s. 1.

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS.

2. For the purposes of the registration of mortgages and other transfers of personal property in the Territories the following shall be registration districts:

1. The registration district of "Moosomin" comprising that part of the Provisional District of Assiniboia as is defined by the Order of the Privy Council of Canada passed on the eighth day of May, A.D. 1882, eastward of the eleventh range of townships west of the second meridian and south of a line which may be described as follows: Commencing at a point where the line between townships twenty and twenty-one in the Dominion Lands system of survey intersects the western boundary of the Province of Manitoba, thence westerly following the said line between townships twenty and twenty-one to its intersection with the line between ranges seven and eight west of the second meridian, thence northerly along the line between ranges seven and eight to its intersection with the line between townships twenty-two and twenty-three, thence westerly along the line between the said townships twenty-two and twenty-three to its intersection with the line between ranges ten and eleven west of the second meridian in the Dominion Lands system of survey;