Such notice may be given either to the person in actual possession of the goods or to his principal. In the latter case the notice, to be effectual, must be given at such time and under such circumstances that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable... A Treatise on the Law of Merchant Shipping - Page 500by David Maclachlan - 1860 - 867 pagesFull view - About this book
| Commerce - 1842 - 586 pages
...principal ; and in the latter case it must be given at such a time, and under such circumstances, as that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable...it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery of the goods to the consignee. Held, therefore, secondly, that in the present case the notice to the... | |
| Freeman Hunt - Commerce - 1842 - 612 pages
...principal ; and in the latter case it qpst be given at such a time, and under such circumstances, as that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable...it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery of the goods to the consignee. Held, therefore, secondly, that in the present case the notice to the... | |
| Law - 1842 - 536 pages
...at such a time, and under such circumstances, as that he may by the exercise of reasonable diligence communicate it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee. Therefore, where timber was sent from Quebec, to be delivered at Port Fleetwood in Lancashire, a notice... | |
| William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1845 - 878 pages
...given to the principal, whose servant has the custody, it must be given, as it was in .Lilt v. Cowiey, at such a time and under such circumstances, that...servant in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee (t). Although goods have been delivered at the packers of the purchaser, he having no warehouse of... | |
| Colin Blackburn Baron Blackburn - Contracts - 1845 - 374 pages
...servant has the custody, it must be " given as it was in the case of Lett v. Cowley (7 Taunt. " 169), at such a time, and under such circumstances, " that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable dili" gence, may communicate it to his servant in time to " prevent the delivery to the consignee ;... | |
| Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1846 - 1088 pages
...*such a time, and under such circumstances, as that he may, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, communicate it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the vendee. Therefore, where timber was sent from Quebec, to be delivered at port Fleetwood, in Lancashire,... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...custody of the goods ; or, if given to the principal, whose servant has the custody, it must be given at such a time and under such circumstances, that...may communicate it to his servant in time to prevent a delivery to the consignee. Notice to a principal at a distance is insufficient to revest the property... | |
| George Ross - Commercial law - 1855 - 956 pages
...of the goods, or if given to the principal, whose servant has the custody of them, it must be given at such a time and under such circumstances that the...of reasonable diligence, may communicate it to his servants in time to prevent the delivery to the vendee, 280. TRANSITUS. 1. Where a vendee is in the... | |
| Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1856 - 996 pages
...such a time, and under such circumstances, as that he may, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, communicate it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the vendee. Therefore, where timber was sent from Quebec, to be delivered at port Fleet-wood, in Lancashire,... | |
| Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1857 - 936 pages
...of stoppage, (o) under such circumstances, as tliat lie may by tlie exercise of reasonable diligence communicate it to his servant, in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee. Therefore, where timber was pent from Quebec, to he delivered ut Port 1'leetwood in Lancashire, a notice... | |
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