Legal Definition and Related Resources of Consign

To deliver goods for care or storage and shipment . One who consigns is a consignor and one to whom goods are so consigned is known as the consignee. A consignee is the person to whom the carrier is to deliver a shipment.

To send goods to a factor or agent. To deposit with another to be sold, disposed of or cared for, as merchandise or movable property; to send goods to an agent, commission merchant, correspondent or factor, to be sold, stored, etc. 82 111. App. 687. In Civil Law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of justice. Poth. Obi. pt. 3, c. 1, art. 8. The term “to consign,” or “consignation,” is derived from the Latin consignare, which signifies to seal; for it was formerly the practice to seal up the money thus received in a bag or box. Aso & M. Inst, bk. 2, tit. 11, c. 1, § 5. Generally, the consignation is made with a public officer. It is very similar to our practice of paying money into court.

verb

• abalienate
• assign to
• authorize
• charge
• commit
• commit to another’s trust
• committere
• convey
• deliver
• deliver formally
• deliver over
• deposit with
• entrust
• give in trust
• hand over
• have conveyed
• send
• ship
• transfer
• transfer for sale
• transmit
• transplant
• transport
• turn over
• Associated Concepts: bailment
• conditional sale
• consignment contract of goods

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Consign in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Latin con-signare, to mark, seal: to register, attest. In civil law, for a debtor, under the direction of a court, to deposit with a third person an article of property for the benefit of a creditor.

Note: This legal definition of Consign in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.