Court : House of Lords
..... transferability by endorsement coming later. it does not, however, seem that this is what happened (see proctor, the legal role of the bill of lading, sea waybill and multimodal transport document (pretoria, 1997), pp 25-26), and the custom found in the leading case of lickbarrow v mason (1794) 5 tr 683 related to the negotiability and ..... mercantile trade. the principal characteristics of the modern bill of lading are threefold. it operates as: (a) a receipt by the carrier acknowledging the shipment of the goods on a particular vessel for carriage to a particular destination; (b) a memorandum of the terms of the contract of carriage, which will usually have been concluded before ..... if there is an ambiguity, it is permissible to consult the french text in case it sheds light on the meaning. 56. in the present case the goods were to be transported by sea. therefore, in order to succeed, msc must show that the document which they issued to coniston international was not, in terms of article i(b .....
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