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Definition of Misdeliver
1. Verb. Deliver to the wrong address.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdeliver
Literary usage of Misdeliver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1901)
"... while of those who arrive, Vernon and Worcester falsify the royal proposals,
and misdeliver the result of the embassy, to no availing end at last. ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... a third person contrary to orders, it is a conversion ; but that if a carrier
misdeliver goods, merely through mistake, an action on the case only lies. ..."
3. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"... gere — Regning [flg] be out in one's calculations; Here Minuter — several
minutes in error. Fejl [adv] amiss, wrong, erroneously; aflevere — misdeliver; ..."
4. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1859)
"... duty on the part of the agents, the express company or the plaintiff, to watch
the butter and see if the defendant did not misdirect or misdeliver it. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures, and the Contracts by Joseph Chitty (1824)
"And if the carrier misdeliver a parcel he is still liable, though notice be given
limiting his responsibility from losses (5). When a carrier can bring the ..."
6. Forms of Practice, Or, American Precedents in Personal and Real Actions by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1851)
"... I may declare against him in trover and conversion; but otherwise, if he
misdeliver them merely by mistake. For the liability of common carriers. ..."
7. A Manual of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions: And Other by James Edward Davis (1848)
"... carrier or warehouseman, &c., misdeliver a parcel, though by mistake, it is
a conversion in law, as it is an act of commission; Devereux v. ..."
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