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This is a part of The Worker’s Liens Casebook, by Robert Fenwick Elliott. Copyright © 2010

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87. There are five classes of rights provided by the Act:

• Workers’ liens
• Contractors’ liens
• Subcontractors’ liens
• Workers’ charges
• Subcontractors’ charges

88. Each of these is discussed below in turn.
89. In addition, the Act bolsters the rights of parties who have liens at common law. In particular, section 41 sets out a procedure whereby persons entitled to a lien at common law may sell the chattel in question. These provisions appear to have received little or no judicial attention.