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–234– -234compensation, if any, which is due to him from the owner for the service; and whoever makes, alters, or repairs any article of personal property, at the request of the owner or legal possessor of the property, has a lien thereon for his reasonable charges for the balance due for the work done and materials furnished, and may retain possession of the property until the charges are paid. (b) Livery and feed-stable, etc., proprietors. Livery or boarding or feed-stable or feed-yard proprietors, and persons pasturing horses or stock, have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for, boarding, feeding, or pasturing the horses or stock. (c) Foundry proprietors. Foundry proprietors and persons conducting a foundry business have a lien, dependent on possession, upon all patterns in their hands belonging to a customer, for the balance due them from the customers for foundry work. (d) Laundry and dry cleaning proprietors. Laundry proprietors and dry cleaning establishment proprietors, and persons conducting a laundry business or dry cleaning establishment, have a general lien, dependent on possession, upon all personal property in their hands belonging to a customer, for the balance due them from the customers for laundry or dry cleaning work. This subsection does not confer a lien in favor of a wholesale dry cleaner on materials received from a dry cleaning establishment proprietor or a person conducting a dry cleaning establishment. (e) Veterinary proprietors and surgeons. Veterinary proprietors and veterinary surgeons have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for, boarding, feeding, and the medical treatment of animals. (f) Garage keepers. Keepers of garages for automobiles have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for and safekeeping the automobiles, and for making repairs and performing any labor upon, or furnishing supplies or materials for, the automooiles. Where the possession of, or hen upon, an automobile held under a claim of lien hereunder is lost by reason of fraud, trick, or device, the repossession of the automobile by the garage keeper shall revive the lien so lost. A lien thus revived is subordinate to any sale, lien, encumbrance, right, title, or interest in the automobile acquired or exercised in good faith and for vahie by a person between the time of loss of possession and the time of repossession. § 4262. Limitation on amount of lien unless notice given That portion of any lien, as provided for in section 4261 of this title, in excess of $200, for any work, services, care, or safekeeping rendered or performed at the request of any person other than the holder of the legal title, is invalid, unless prior to commencing any such work, service, care, or safekeeping, the person claiming the lien gives actual notice in writing either by personal service or by registered letter addressed to the holder of the legal title to the property, if known. In the case of automobiles, the person named as legal owner in the registration certificate, shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, the holder of the legal title. § 4263. Sale of property by lien holder; notice; proceeds If the person entitled to the lien provided for in section 4261 of this title is not paid the amount due and for which the lien is given,

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