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Definition :

Consignor, means the person, named in a railway receipt as consignor, by whom or on whose behalf goods covered by the railway receipt are entrusted to a railway administration for carriage. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (10)]

(ii) means the person, named in the multimodal transport contract s consignor, by whom or on whose behalf the goods covered by such contract are entrusted to a multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (e)]

Consignor, an intention to exclude from considera-tion any person who under domestic law would be a party to the contract through or in addition to a person named as consignor in the air wayball, Western Digital Corpn. v. Biritish Airways Plc (CA), (2003) 3 WLR 1855.