Consign

To send goods to a factor or agent. To deposit with another to be sold, disposed of or cared for, as merchandise or movable property; to send goods to an agent, commission merchant, correspondent or factor, to be sold, stored, etc. 82 111. App. 687. In Civil Law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of justice. Poth. Obi. pt. 3, c. 1, art. 8. The term "to consign," or "consignation," is derived from the Latin consignare, which signifies to seal; for it was formerly the practice to seal up the money thus received in a bag or box. Aso & M. Inst, bk. 2, tit. 11, c. 1, § 5. Generally, the consignation is made with a public officer. It is very similar to our practice of paying money into court.

To send goods to a factor or agent. See Gillespie v. Wiuberg, 4 Daly (N*. Y.) 320. In Civil Law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of justice. Pothier, Obi. pt. 3, c. 1, art. 8. The term to consign, or consignation, Is derived from the Latin consiijnare, which signifies to seal; for it was formerly the practice to seal up the money thus received in a bag or box. Aso & M. Inst. b. 2, t. 11, c. 1, § 5. Generally, the consignation is made with a public officer: it is very similar to our practice of paying money into court. See Burge, Surety. C0NSIGNATI0. See Consign.

In the civil law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of justice. Poth. Obi. pt. 3, c. 1, art. 8.

In commercial law. To deliver goods to a carrier to be transmitted to a designated factor or agent Powell v. Wallace, 44 Kan. 656, 25 Pac. 42; Sturm v. Boker, 150 U. S. 312, 14 Sup. Ch 99, 37 L. Ed. 1093; Ide Mfg. Co. v. Sager Mfg. Co., 82 III. App. 685. To deliver or transfer as a charge or trust; to commit, intrust, give in trust; to transfer from oneself to the care of another; to send or transmit goods to a merchant or factor for sale. Gillespie v. Winberg, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 320.

To deliver or transfer for sale; to transmit goods rier for sale, custody, etc.

In the civil law. To deposit in the custody of a third persona thing belonging to the debtor, for the benelit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of justice. Poth. Obl. pt. 3, c. 1, art. 8.

In commercial law. To deliver goods to a carrier to be transmitted to a designated factor or agent, To deliver or transfer as a charge or trust; to commit, intrust, give in trust; to transfer from oneself to the care of another; to send or transmit goods to a merchant or factor for sale. 4 Daly, 320.

* 1. Incivillaw, foradebtor, under the direction of a court, to deposit with a third person an article of property for the benefit of a creditor. Consignation. A deposit which a debtor makes, by authority of court, of the thing which he owes, in the hands of a third person.* 2. In mercantile law, to send or transmit goods to a merchant or factor for sale... The radical meaning of the word, which is of French origin, is to deliver or transfer as a charge or trust.* Modern usage extends the meaning to transmission, by the agency of a common carrier, of merchandise or other movables for custody, sale, etc. Consignee.^ The factor or agent to whom merchandise or other personal property is consigned. Consignor. He who makes a consignment of personal property. Consignment. Property intrusted to a common carrier for delivery to a pei'son named in the bill of lading; also, the act or transaction by which the property is transported. See Bailment; Caeriee; Factor; Lading, Bill of.