Section 20 - Lien for expenses not affected; rights of owner Nothing in this act contained shall be construed or taken:
I. To affect any lien which a consignee or factor may possess at law, for the expenses and charges attending the shipment or transmission and care of merchandise consigned, or otherwise entrusted to him.II. Nor to prevent the actual owner of merchandise from recovering the same from such consignee or factor, before the same shall have been deposited or pledged as aforesaid, or from the assignees or trustees of such consignee or factor, in the event of his insolvency.III. Nor to prevent such owner from recovering any merchandise so as aforesaid deposited or pledged, upon tender of the money, or of restoration of any negotiable instrument so advanced, or given to such consignee or factor, and upon tender of such further sum of money, or of restoration of such other negotiable instrument, if any, as may have been advanced or given by such consignee or factor to such owner, or on tender of a sum of money equal to the amount of such instrument.IV. Nor to prevent such owner from recovering, from the person accepting or taking such merchandise in deposit or pledge, any balance or sum of money remaining in his hands as the produce of the sale of such merchandise, after deducting thereout the amount of money or the negotiable instrument so advanced or given upon the security thereof, as aforesaid.1834, April 14, P.L. 375, § 5.