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)]...
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....
Endorsee, means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favour the last endorsement is made. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (g); Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (12)]The word 'endorsee' means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favour the last endorsement is made, See also Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993, s. 2(g). [Railways Act, 1989, s. 2(12)]...
Endorsement. See INDORSEMENT.An amendment to an insurance policy; a rider, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 548.It means the signing by the consignee or the endorsee after adding a direction on a negotiable multimodal transport document to pass the property in the goods mentioned in such document to a specified person. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993, s. 2 (h); Railways Act, 1989, s. 2(13)]It include and apply to an entry in writing by a registering officer on a rider or covering slip to any document tendered for registration under this Act. [Registration Act, 1908, s. 2 (5)]...
Taking charge, means that the goods have been handed over to and accepted for carriage by the multimodal transport operator. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2(s)]...
Special drawing rights, means such units of accounts as are determined by the International Monetary Fun. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2(r)]...
Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (English) (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), codifying the law of the sale of goods, in the same fashion as the law of bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques was codified (see CODE) by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, and the law of partnership by the (English) Partnership Act, 1890.The parts of the Act are:-I. Formation of the Contact, in which it is provided, amongst other things, that an infant or person by mental incapacity or drunkenness incompetentto contract must pay a reasonable price for 'necessaries' sold and delivered to him; that (re-enacting a part of the Statute of Frauds) a contract for the sale of goods of the value of 10l. or more is not enforceable unless the buyer accept and receive part, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or 'unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract be made and signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf'; that a contract for the sale of specific goods which have perished witho...
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Dangerous goods, Act as to the carriage and deposit of, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39, repealed by the Explosives Act, 1875. See EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES; Bamfield v. Goole Transport Co., (1910) 2 KB 94; and Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins,1909 AC 640. As to the sale of dangerous goods, see Clarke v. Army & Navy Co-operative Soc., (1903) 1 KB 155.In Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (s. 446) 'Dangerous goods', is defined to mean 'acqua fortis, vitriol, naphta, benzine, gunpowder, lucifer matches, nitroglycerine, petroleum, any explosives within the meaning of the Explosives Act, 1875, and any other goods which are of a dangerous nature.Means any article or substance which is capable of posing significant risk to health, safety or property when carried by air, Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulation, 1985, SI 1985/1939, reg. 3(1) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1654, p. 810.Means goods designated as dangerous goods by safety regulations under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1995, s. 87(5) (UK...
Goods vehicle, means any motor vehicle as defined in clause (28) of s. 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988) constructed or adapted for use for transportation of goods or any motor vehicle not so constructed or adapted when used for the transportation of goods and includes a trailer attached to such vehicle and any means of transportation including an animal to carry goods from one point to another point, [The West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(16)]...