Consignee

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consignee \Con`sign*ee"\ (?; 277), n. [F. consign?, p. p. of
     consigner.]
     The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a
     factor; -- correlative to consignor.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to
           express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the
           person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or
           otherwise.                               --De Colange.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  consignee
       n : the person to whom merchandise is delivered over

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "consignee":
     Federal, accepter, acquirer, addressee, agent, amanuensis,
     audience, auditor, baggage agent, beholder, business agent,
     claim agent, clerk, commercial agent, commission agent,
     customer agent, dupe, factor, fed, federal agent, freight agent,
     functionary, general agent, getter, hearer, holder, implement,
     instrument, insurance agent, land agent, law agent, listener,
     literary agent, loan agent, looker, news agent, obtainer, official,
     parliamentary agent, passenger agent, payee, press agent, procurer,
     puppet, purchasing agent, real estate agent, receiver, recipient,
     sales agent, secretary, special agent, spectator, station agent,
     steward, taker, theatrical agent, ticket agent, tool, travel agent,
     trustee, viewer, walking delegate
  
  

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

  CONSIGNEE, contracts. One to whom a consignment is made. 
       2. When the goods consigned to him are his own, and they have been 
  ordered to be sent, they are at his risk the moment the consignment is made 
  according to his direction; and the persons employed in the transmission of 
  the goods are his agents. 1 Liverm. on Ag, 9. When the goods are not his 
  own, if he accept the consignment, he is bound to pursue the instructions of 
  the consignor; as if the goods be consigned upon condition that the 
  consignee will accept the consignor's bills, he is bound to accept them; Id. 
  139; or if he is directed to insure, he must do so. Id. 325. 
       3. It is usual in bills of lading to state that the goods are to be 
  delivered to the consignee or his assigns, he or they paying freight; in 
  such case the consignee or his assigns, by accepting the goods, by 
  implication, become bound to pay the freight, Abbott on Sh. p. 3, c. 7, Sec. 
  4; 3 Bing. R, 383. 
       4. When a person acts, publicly as a consignee, there is an implied 
  engagement on his part that he will be vigilant in receiving goods consigned 
  to his care, so as to make him responsible for any loss which the owner may 
  sustain in consequence of his neglect. 9 Watts & Serg. 62.