Consignor
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, is one who makes a consignment to another. When goods are consigned to be sold on commissions, and the property remains in the consignor; or when goods have been consigned upon a credit, and the consignee has become a bankrupt or failed, the consignor has a right to stop them in transitu, (q. v-) Abbott on Sh. p.
3,c.9,§1.
The consignor is generally liable for the freight or the hire for the carriage of goods.
1 T. R. 659.