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intrusting a warehouse receipt

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Definitions from Case Law

From 239 U.S. 520 - Commercial National Bank of New Orleans v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Company · 1916Most cited · 166 citing opinions

The warehouse receipt represents the goods, but the intrusting of the receipt, as stated, is more than the mere delivery of the goods; it is a representation that the one to whom the possession of the receipt has been so intrusted has the title to the goods.

How often courts cite the case defining “intrusting a warehouse receipt”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intrusting a warehouse receipt” — 166 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.