[f. CONSIGN v. + -OR.] One who consigns or dispatches goods to another. A more technical form than CONSIGNER, as correlative to CONSIGNEE.
1789. Durnford & East, Rep., III. 467. The assignee putting his mark on them could not divest the consignor’s right.
1817. W. Selwyn, Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4), II. 1176. In order to stop goods in transitu, there must be an actual possession of them obtained by the consignor, before they come to the hands of the consignee.
1878. F. S. Williams, Midl. Railw., 633. The yawning vacuity which the consignees discovered in the hamper … might also have been discovered by the consignor before it left his premises.
