1789. Buller, Term Rep., III. 469. There is the strongest evidence of the consignee’s taking actual possession of the goods.
1866. Crump, Banking, vii. 142. A corn merchant at New York ships a cargo to London, and … draws a bill upon the consignee.
1886. Sir C. Russell in Daily News, 10 Dec., 3/2. He asserted the right of the company to send consignee letters; that was, letters sent in reference to the consignment of goods.
Hence Consigneeship.
1837. Leeds Intelligencer, 13 May, 7/4. Messrs Good had never renounced the consignee-ship, but had only wished to leave the goods on board the neutral vessel in order to avoid the impending confiscation.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., VI. 503. [A] town-meeting … invites the Hutchinsons to resign their consigneeship.
