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Consignment

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The goods or property sent by means of a common carrier by one or more persons, called the "consignors," in one place, to one or more persons, called the "consignees," who are in another. The goods sent by one person to another, to be sold or disposed of by the latter for and on account of the former. The act of consigning goods. In French Law. "A deposit which the debtor' makes of the thing that he owes into the hands of a third piarson, and under the authority of a court of justice."

1 Poth. Obi. 376.

CONSILIA MULTORUM REQUIRUNTUR in magnls. The advice of many persons la requisite in great affairs.

Coke, 4th Inst. 1.

CONSILIARIUS (Lat. conailiare, to advise). In the civil law. A counsellor, as distinguished from a pleader or advocate; an assistant judge; one who participates in the decisions. Du Cange.