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Definition of Consignee
1. Noun. The person to whom merchandise is delivered over.
Definition of Consignee
1. n. The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
Definition of Consignee
1. Noun. The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consignee
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consignee
Literary usage of Consignee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"(a) The consignee of goods delivered to a carrier for transportation may be
presumed to be the owner of the goods, and, in the absence of either actual or ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"In such cases, as well as when the consignee has refused to take the goods, if
the carrier know that they still belong to the consignor, from being so ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Floyd Russell Mechem (1891)
"Same subject — Carrier not liable for innocent delivery to consignee though a
... Liability as warehouseman when goods refused or consignee cannot be found. ..."
4. Halleck's International Law, Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States by Henry Wager Halleck (1893)
"neutral consignee, the property being in the consignee, not only by the rules of the
... So, also, if the consignee be a subject of the belligerent captor, ..."
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