Delivery Order

An order addressed in England, 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. Delivery orders are chiefly used in the case of goods held by dock companies, wharfingers, etc. Such an order is not a document of title, and therefore does not acted on by the holder's obtaining either (1) actual delivery, (2) an entry of his title in the wharfinger's books, or (3) the issue of a dock warrant in his name; which last operation would apparently presuppose the second. Until he does one of these things, the original owner may obtain delivery to himself, or transfer the property in the goods to some one else.

2 H. L. Cas. 309; 5 Ch. Div. 195; Benj. Sales, 684.

See "Dock Warrant."

See Dock Warrant.