Consignee
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
contracts, one to whom a consignment is made. When the goods consigned to him are his own, and they have been ordered to be sent, they are at his risk the moment the consignment is made according to his direction; and the persons employed in the transmission of the goods are his agents.
1 Liverm. on Ag. 9.
When the goods are not his own, if he accept the consignment, he is bound to pursue the instructions of the consignor; as if the goods be consigned condition that the consignee will ae accept the consignor’s bills, he is bound to accept them; Ib. 139; or if he is directed to insure, he must do so.
Ib. 325.
It is usual in bills of lading to state that the goods are to be delivered in such case the consignee or his assigns by accepting the goods, by implication, become bound to pay the freight. Abbott on Sh. p.
3, c. 7,§4; 3 Bing. R. 383.