CONSIGNMEN

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONSIGNMENT. The goods or property sent by a common carrier from one or 
  more persons called the consignors, from one place, to one or more persons, 
  called the consignees, who are in another. By this term is also understood 
  the goods sent by one person to another, to be sold or disposed of by the 
  latter for and on account of the former.