Consignee

Consignee

In a contract of carriage, the consignee is the person to whom the shipment is to be delivered to whether by land, sea or air.

A brief statement of law

This is a difficult area of law in that it regulates the mass transportation industry which cannot always guarantee arrival on time or that goods will not be damaged in the course of transit. A further two problems are that unpaid consignors or freight carriers may wish to hold goods until payment is made, and fraudulent individuals may seek to take delivery in place of the legitimate consignees. The key to resolving such disputes lies in the documentation. The standard form of contract is a bill of lading which, in international shipping law, is simply a contract for the carriage of goods entered into between the shipper and the carrier that is not a charter party. It is always a term of that contract that the carrier must deliver the goods to a specific receiver.

Documentation and legal requirements for delivery

A straight bill of lading by land or sea, or air waybill are not documents of title to the goods they represent. They do no more than require delivery of the goods to the named consignee and (subject to the shipper's ability to redirect the goods) to no other. This differs from an "order" or "bearer" bill of lading which are possessory title documents and negotiable, i.e. they can be endorsed and so transfer the right to take delivery to the last endorsee. This aspect of shipping law is regulated by the Hague Rules, and the laws of individual countries, e.g. the UK Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 and the U.S. Pomerene Act 1916. There is some international dispute as to whether the consignee on a straight bill must produce the bill in order to take delivery. The U.S. position is that the person taking delivery must prove his or her identity but, as in Hong Kong, there is no need to present the bill itself. In the UK there are conflicting obiter dicta in "The Rafaela S" [2003] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 113 and "The Happy Ranger" [2002] 2 AER (Comm) 23, so the matter must remain unclear even though there are serious problems, for example, arising from the everyday occurrence of cargo being discharged against letters of indemnity when original bills of lading are not yet available to be presented at the discharge port.

Consignee rights

The rights of the consignee under an air waybill are regulated by the Warsaw Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, 1929 and the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air 1999 and the relevant state laws (which may be one law chosen as the proper law by the parties, or any combination of laws representing the seller, buyer, consignor, and carrier. this is very important as per export documents.

If Sender sends a widget to Receiver via a delivery service, Sender is the consignor and Receiver is the consignee.


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  • consignee — con·sign·ee /kən ˌsī nē; ˌkän ˌsī nē, kən , sə / n: a person to whom goods are consigned Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. consignee …   Law dictionary

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • consignee — [kän΄sīn ē′, kən sīn′ē] n. a person or dealer to whom something, esp. goods, is consigned …   English World dictionary

  • consignee — The party named in the bill of lading to whom delivery is promised and/or title is passed. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary ( duty suspension) The person to whom duty suspended goods are consigned and who accounts for those goods in the Member… …   Financial and business terms

  • Consignee — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Consignee >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 consignee consignee trustee nominee committee GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 delegate delegate Sgm: N 2 commissary commissary commissioner Sgm: N 2 emissary …   English dictionary for students

  • consignée — ● consigné, consignée nom Soldat, marin, élève privés de sortie par punition ou par mesure d ordre ou de santé …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • consignee — gavėjas statusas T sritis Gynyba apibrėžtis Subjektas, kuriam skirtos siunčiamos prekės. atitikmenys: angl. consignee pranc. consignataire šaltinis NATO turto sekimo terminų žodynas AAP 35, 2000 …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • consignee — /kansayniy/ One to whom a consignment is made. Person named in bill of lading to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery. U.C.C. No. 7 102(b). In a commercial use, consignee means one to whom a consignment may be made, a person to whom… …   Black's law dictionary

  • consignee — /kansayniy/ One to whom a consignment is made. Person named in bill of lading to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery. U.C.C. No. 7 102(b). In a commercial use, consignee means one to whom a consignment may be made, a person to whom… …   Black's law dictionary

  • consignee — consign ► VERB 1) deliver to someone s possession or care. 2) send (goods) by a public carrier. 3) (consign to) put (someone or something) in (a place) so as to be rid of them. DERIVATIVES consignee noun consignor noun. ORIGIN …   English terms dictionary

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