? Obs. [f. L. consignāt- ppl. stem of consignāre + -ARY: in mod.F. consignataire.] One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted; a consignee: a. in mercantile usage (obs.); b. in Sc. Law: cf. CONSIGN v. 9.
a. 1685. Sir L. Jenkins, in Wynne, Life II. 701 (L.). Several of the consignataries have made oath, that the goods consigned unto them in these ships do belong to free persons.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 211. [see CONSIGNATION 5]. Ibid., 290. It is the office of a consignatary, to keep the money in safe custody till it be called for.
