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==What is a warehouse lien?Understand your legal rights== ===A warehouse lien (also known as helps a storage facility get paid=== Under the [http://canlii.ca/t/84fm law in BC], a '''warehouse lien for storage'') ' is a charge or legal claim by made on goods stored with a person “warehouser”. A warehouser is someone in the business of storing goods (known as a “warehouser”) on goods stored in their warehouse. A The warehouse lien helps ensure a warehouser get gets paid for storing goods. It lets them keep those goods and eventually sell them to recover the cost of storage if the owner of the goods does not pay for the storage. Warehousers automatically have a lien on goods given to them for storage, whether the goods are given by the owner of goods or by any person who the owner gave the goods to. ==Does a warehouse lien exist and what amounts does it cover—sections 2 and 3==A warehouse lien exists automatically—unless it’s void under section 3 (explained in the next section). Also, the lien exists regardless of who left the goods for storage: the owner of the goods, someone with the owner’s authority, or someone who received the goods from the owner or from a person with the owner’s authority.
==Notice of =How a warehouse lien if goods left not by owner—section 3is established===The warehouser must give notice of the Warehousers automatically have a lien to the owner of the goods, but only if owner (or a person they authorized) was not the one who deposited the on goods left with them for storage at when the warehouse. If goods are left by:*the owner of the goods (or a person they authorized) left the goods at the warehouse, no notice is needed because the owner already knows the goods are there. On *someone with the other handowner’s authority, if a person who had the goods (because the owner or a *any person they authorized gave them entrusted with the goods) put the goods in storage, then by the owner is entitled to notice of this.
==Notice that =If a warehouser intends to sell the goods—section 4does not get paid===Warehousers who want to If a warehouser does not get paid storage fees they are due, the warehouser can sell the by public auction any goods to pay off the debt must use on which they have a public auctionwarehouse lien. FirstIn doing so, they must give written notice to the following four parties (using one of the two methods in section 8) that they intend to sell the goodsfollow a process set out under [http:*the person who owes the debt to the warehouser for the goods.*the owner of the goods.*anyone who has registered a financing statement of their security interest in the goods by the time the goods were left at the warehouse//canlii.*anyone else the warehouser knows to have—or claim to have—an interest in the goodsca/t/84fm BC law].
====The warehouser must wait for advertise the public auction====If the warehouser’s charges are not paid by the date in the notice, the warehouser must '''advertise the public auction'''. The ad must be published at least 14 days after once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper in the local area where the first advertisement auction is published to sell the goodsbe held.
==Ways =What happens to give notice—section 8the sale proceeds===The required written notice must be given in one of two ways:*delivering Where the notice to goods are sold at auction, the person; or*mailing warehouser must satisfy the notice to warehouse lien from the person at sale proceeds. This involves covering their charges for storing and preserving the person’s last known addressgoods, by registered mailand any reasonable charges from the sale.
==What problems does the Act present for a warehouser?Common questions==To claim a lien, a warehouser must still have the goods. The Act does not permit a “non-possessory lien”, meaning a lien over goods that a person no longer has. So if a warehouser has returned the goods to the person who left them before being paid for storing them, the lien is no longer valid. Warehousers must be careful not to give up goods that they have a lien on before they are paid for storing those goods.
==More information=Can self-storage operators claim a warehouse lien?===A warehouse lien is only one type of lienNo. [http://canlii. Other types exist, in both common ca/t/84fm BC law and under other statutes, and ] defines “warehouser” as a lien is only one type person in the business of remedy. Other remedies are available to collect debts, including hiring storing goods “as a collection agency, suing, seizing and selling assets, and garnishing wagesbailee for hire”. Script [[Collection A bailee for hire is someone who takes care of Debts (Script 250)|250]], “Collection property left with them as someone would take of Debts”, has more informationtheir own property. The law in Self-storage facilities do not meet this area can be complex. For legal advice, consult a lawyerdefinition.
[updated October 2017]
'''The above was last reviewed for legal accuracy by [https://www.ganapathico.com/our-team/nathan-ganapathi/ Nathan Ganapathi] and [https://www.ganapathico.com/our-team/anna-kurt/ Anna Kurt and Nathan ], Ganapathi, and edited by John BloisLaw Group.'''
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