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consign : to entrust (one's goods) to the possession of a dealer to be sold for profit or returned if unsold compare bail, entrust con·sign·ment n con·sign·or [kən-sī-nər, kÄ n-sī-nȯr] n ...
Consign
To give transfer or deliver in a formal manner as if by signing over into the possession of another or into a different state with the sense of fixedness in that state or permanence of possession as to consign the body to the grave...
Consignment
The act of consigning consignation...
Consignment
Consignment, the sending of goods to another for sale or purchase; also the goods themselves so sent. He who consigns the goods is called the consignor, and the person to whom they are sent is called the consignee.(ii) means goods entrusted to a railway administra-tion for carriage. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (9)](iii) means the goods entrusted to a multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation. [The Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (d)]...
Consignation
The act of consigning the act of delivering or committing to another person place or state...
Consignation
Consignation [fr. Consigno, Lat., to write down], the deposit of a thing owed with a third person, under the authority of the Court, Civil Law....
Consigner
One who consigns See Consignor...
Delivery
Delivery, in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any mechanical instrument or by broadcast. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (g)]It means the birth of a child. [Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961), s. 3 (c)]It means--(i) in the case of a negotiable multimodal transport document, delivering of the consignment to, or placing the consignment at the disposal of, the consignee or any other person entitled to receive it;(ii) in the case of a non-negotiable multimodal trans-port document, delivering of the consignment to, or placing the consignment at the disposal of, the consignee or any person authorised by the consignee to accept delivery of the consignment on his behalf. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (f)]It means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another. [Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (3 of 1930), s. 2 (2)]Must necessarily mean the point of time when the goods can be physically to the importer, Garden Silk Mills ...
Mercantile agent
Mercantile agent. The Factors Act, 1839 (English) (52 & 53 Vict. c. 45), s. 1, defines a mercantile agent as 'a mercantile agent having in the customary course of his business as such agent authority either to sell goods or to consign goods for the purpose of sale, or to buy goods or to raise money on the security of goods.' A mercantile agent has implied authority to pledge the goods entrusted to him, Weiner v. Harris, (1910) 1 KB 285. See also Weiner v. Gill, (1906) 2 KB 574; and Kempler v. Bravingtons Ltd., (1925) 133 LT 680.It means mercantile agent having in the customary course of business as such agent authority either to sell goods, or to consign goods for the purposes of sale, or to buy goods, or to raise money on the security of goods. [Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (3 of 1930), s. 2 (9)]...
Loss
Loss, the word 'loss' used in Railway Act can never mean loss to the owner, it means that the goods have disappeared in the course of transit and neither the railway nor the consignor nor the consignee re or is in a position to trace them, Union of India v. Sha Vastimull Harakchand, AIR 1959 Mys 13.The word 'loss' in the third clause of the 6th paragraph of art. III to the Act means and includes any loss caused to a shipper or a consignee by reason of the inability of the ship or the carrier to deliver part or whole of the goods, to whatever reason such failure may be due, East and West Steamship Co. v. S.K. Ramalingam Chettiar, AIR 1960 SC 1058: (1960) 3 SCR 820 [Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925, Sch. Art III, Para 6, Cl. (3)]The word 'loss' is intended to mean and include every kind of loss to the owner of the goods--whether it is the whole of the consignment which is not delivered or part of the consignment which is not delivered and whether such non-delivery of the whole or part ...
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