Delivery Order
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
An order by the owner of goods to a person holding them on his behalf, requesting him to deliver them to a person named in the order. Such an order is not a document of title and therefore does not transfer the property or divert 1 1 1 » • vendor's lien for the purchase money until the holder obtains actual delivery, the issue of a dock warrant in his name, or an entry of his title in the wharliuger's books.
2 li. L. Cas. 309; 0 Ch. D. 195.