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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factors-act-1889/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/52-53/45",
  "legislation_title": "Factors Act 1889",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factors-act-1889",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Pledge for antecedent debt.",
  "text": "Where a mercantile agent pledges goods as security for a debt or liability due from the pledgor to the pledgee before the time of the pledge, the pledgee shall acquire no further right to the goods than could have been enforced by the pledgor at the time of the pledge.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/52-53/45/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:57.138041+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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