consignor

One who makes a consignment. CONSILIARIUS (Lat consiliare, to advise). In Civil Law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate. An assistant judge. One who participates in the decisions. Du Cange. CONSILIUM (called, also, Dies Consilii). A day appointed to hear the counsel of both parties. A case set down for argument. It is commonly used for the day appointed for the argument of a demurrer, or errors assigned; 1 Tidd, Pr. 43S; 2 id. 684, 1122; 1 Sell. Pr. 336; 1 Archb. Pr. 191, 246. CONSIMILI CASU (Lat. in like case). A writ of entry, framed under the provisions of the statute Westminster 2d (13 Edw. I.), c. 24, which lay for the benefit of the rever4 sioner, where a tenant by the curtesy aliened in fee or for life; 3 Bla. Com., 4th Dublin ed. 183 n.; Bac. Abr. Court of Chancery (A). Many other new writs were framed under the provisions of this statute; but this particular writ was known emphatically by the title here defined. The writ Is now practically obsolete. See 3 Bla. Com. 51; Case; Assumpsit.

The person by whom

In mercantile law. The person by whom goods or merchandise are consigned or shipped; the shipper. 2 Kent's Com. 643. 3 Id. 207, 215. Abbott on Ship. [326] 403.

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.