Consign
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
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Incivillaw, foradebtor, under the direction of a court, to deposit with a third person an article of property for the benefit of a creditor.
Consignation
A deposit which a debtor makes, by authority of court, of the thing which he owes, in the hands of a third person.* 2. In mercantile law, to send or transmit goods to a merchant or factor for sale... The radical meaning of the word, which is of French origin, is to deliver or transfer as a charge or trust.* Modern usage extends the meaning to transmission, by the agency of a common carrier, of merchandise or other movables for custody, sale, etc. Consignee.^ The factor or agent to whom merchandise or other personal property is consigned.
Consignor.
He who makes a consignment of personal property.
Consignment
Property intrusted to a common carrier for delivery to a pei'son named in the bill of lading; also, the act or transaction by which the property is transported. See Bailment; Caeriee; Factor; Lading, Bill of.