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Consignee, means the person named as consignee in a railway receipt. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (8)](ii) means the person named as consignee in the multimodal transport contract. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (c)]means at least the person to whom the goods are consigned, Western Digiatal Corpn. v. British Airways Plc (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1855....
Owner consignee
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 1998SC 92 (96): (1988) 1 SCC 142. [Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, s. 2(o); Bombay Port Trust Act, 1879, s. 3(5)]...
consignee
consignee : a person to whom goods are consigned ...
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 ...
Bill of Lading
Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt of merchants' goods, of which there are usually three parts-one kept by the consignor, one sent to the consignee, and one preserved by the master. It is the evidence of the title to the goods shipped; and by its endorsement and delivery, the transfer of the property in the goods specified therein is generally effected. By the Bills of Lading Act, 1855, the rights of suit under a bill of lading vest in the consignee or endorsee (as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself) without prejudice to any right of stoppage in transitu or to freight. See (English) Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 22), and Carver on Carriage by Sea.A bill of lading is 'a writing, signed on behalf of the owner of the ship in which goods are embarked, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and undertaking to deliver them at the end of the voyage s...
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 ...
Consignatary
A consignee...
Consignee
The person to whom goods or other things are consigned a factor correlative to consignor...
Consignor
One who consigns something to another opposed to consignee...
Factor
One who transacts business for another an agent a substitute especially a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission a commission merchant or consignee He may be a home factor or a foreign factor He may buy and sell in his own name and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods and in these respects he differs from a broker...
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