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Owner consignee, the expression owner includes a 'consignee' as also an 'agent for sale or custody' of such goods. Both under the Bombay Port Trust Act as well as under the Major Port Trusts Acts, the expression 'owner' includes an 'agent for the custody of such goods', Sun Export Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay, AIR 1998

SC 92 (96): (1988) 1 SCC 142. [Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, s. 2(o); Bombay Port Trust Act, 1879, s. 3(5)]