Take Delivery - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Take delivery, means to receive something pur-chased or order, especially, to receive a commodity under a future contract or spot-market contract, or to receive securities recently purchased, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1466....
tender of delivery
tender of delivery :an offer of goods by a seller to a buyer that consists of putting or holding them at the disposition of the buyer and giving the buyer any notification reasonably necessary for taking delivery [a cause of action for breach of warranty usually accrues upon tender of delivery] compare delivery ...
Delivery of a Deed
Delivery of a Deed, a requisite to a good deed.The delivery may be effected either by acts or by words, i.e., by doing something and saying nothing, as merely handing it to the grantee or his agent; or by saying something and doing nothing, as 'I deliver this writing as my act and deed,' or language of a similar import; or by doing and saying something. See Shep. Touch. P. 57.Delivery is of two kinds:--(a) Absolute, when the execution perfects the deed, and nothing is left to be done; or(b) Conditional, which is the handing of the writing to some third person to be delivered by him as the act and deed of the grantor, when certain specified conditions shall be performed. Until the conditions are performed the instrument is called an escrow, scrowl, or writing. See ESCROW.A deed takes effect only from delivery; for if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it, 2 Bl. Com. 307.Deeds take precedence according to the time of their delivery, but their effect may ...
Sale of Goods Act, 1893
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...
Negotiation by delivery
Negotiation by delivery, [See Negotiable Instru-ments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 47]Subject to the provision of s. 58, a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque payable to bearer is negotiable by delivery thereof.Exception.--A promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque delivered on condition that it is not to take effect except in a certain event is not negotiable (except in the hands of a holder for value without notice of the condition) unless such event happens.Illustrations(a) A, the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, delivers it to B's agent to keep for B. The instrument has been negotiated.(b) A, the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, which is in the hands of A's banker, who is at the time the banker of B, directs the banker to transfer the instrument to B's credit in the banker's account with B. The banker does so, and accordingly now possesses the instrument as B's agent. The instrument has been negotiated, and B has become the holder of...
Premature delivery
Premature delivery, means which takes place between the 28th week and 40th week from the date of conception, Mahendra Manilal v. Sushila Mahendra, AIR 1965 SC 364....
delivery
delivery pl: -er·ies : an act that shows a transferor's intent to make a transfer of property (as a gift) ;esp : the transfer of possession or exclusive control of property to another actual delivery : a delivery (as by hand or shipment) of actual physical property (as jewelry or stock certificates) conditional delivery : a delivery after which ownership will be transferred upon fulfillment of a condition compare gift causa mortis at gift NOTE: A conditional delivery is usually made in order to make a transfer revocable. constructive delivery : a delivery of a representation of property (as a written instrument) or means of possession (as a key) that is construed by a court as sufficient to show the transferor's intent or to put the property under the transferee's control called also symbolic delivery ...
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 ...
Actual delivery of possession
Actual delivery of possession, expression 'actual delivery of possession' can be that actual delivery as contrasted with mere dealing in differences and such actual delivery of possession included within its scope symbolical as well as constructive delivery of possession, Duri Chand Pataria v. Bhuwlka Brothers Ltd, AIR 1955 SC 182 (187). [W. B. Jute Goods Future Ordinance (5 of 1949), s. 2(i)(b)(i)]...
bona fide purchaser
bona fide purchaser : a purchaser who purchases in good faith without notice of any defect in title and for a valuable consideration called also bona fide purchaser for value NOTE: There are particular requirements for a bona fide purchaser of a security set out in Uniform Commercial Code section 8-302. Under this section a bona fide purchaser is one who buys a security in good faith and without notice of any adverse claims and who takes delivery of a certificated security either as a bearer security or as a registered security issued to him or her or endorsed to him or her or by a blank endorsement or to whom the transfer of an uncertificated security is registered on the books of the issuer, or as otherwise provided in section 8-313. ...
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