Actual Delivery
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the law of sales, actual delivery consists in the giving real possession of the thing sold to the vendee or his servants or special agents who are identified with him in law and represent him. Constructive delivery is a general term, comprehending all those acts which, although not truly conferring a real possession of the thing sold on the vendee, have been held, by a construction of law, equivalent to acts of real delivery. In this sense constructive delivery includes symbolical delivery and all those traditiones fictae which have been admitted into the law as sufficient to vest the absolute property in the vendee and bar the rights of lien and stoppage in transitu, such as marking and setting apart the goods as belonging to the vendee, charging him with warehouse rent, etc.
1 Rawle, 19.