Legal Definition and Related Resources of Actual delivery

See “Delivery.”

What does Actual delivery mean in American Law?

The definition of Actual delivery in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A term ordinarily used to describe manually or physically putting the item into the possession of another, as contrasted with symbolic or constructive delivery. (Caution: The modern sale-of-goods-law consequences of the various possible modes of “delivery” and “acceptance” [are] governed in detail by divers sections of the U.C.C., which should be consulted.)

One further complication. Manual delivery to a person’s agent is naturally delivery to that person. But in some contexts, notably insurance, it has sometimes been held that the act of putting an insurance policy out of control of the sender amounted to “actual delivery” to the other person, even if neither he nor his agent had received it.

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This definition of Actual Delivery Is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . This entry needs to be proofread.

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