 | Law - 1882 - 614 pages
...it in a limited sense. " It is an instrument of a two-fold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character it is an acknowledgment...there can be no valid contract to carry or to deliver. " To these elementary truths the reply is that the agent of defendant has acknowledged in writing the... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Robert William Hughes - Admiralty - 1883 - 560 pages
...applies to it in a limited sense. " It is an instrument of a two-fold character, at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character it is an acknowledgment...of the vessel ; in the latter, it is a contract to safely carry and deliver." See also Fechtenburg $• Co. v. The Bark Woodland, 3 Transcript Reports,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 978 pages
...to it in a limited sense. It is an instrument of a two-fold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. ' In the former character it is an acknowledgment...there can be no valid contract to carry or to deliver. § 345. I> 111 <>f lading signed by a slapping agent does not bind principal more than if signed by... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1166 pages
...to it In a limited sense. It is an instrument of a twofold character. It Is at once a receipt and u contract. In the former character it is an acknowledgment of the receipt of property on hi>ard his» vessel by the owner of tlie vessel. In the lut ter it Is a contract to carry safely and... | |
 | Henry Morrison Herman - Estoppel - 1886 - 952 pages
...to it in a limited sense. It is an instrument of a two-fold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character it is an acknowledgment of the receipt of property on his vessel by the owner of the vessel. In the latter it is a contract to carry and deliver. If no goods... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1050 pages
...O'Brien v. Gilchrist, 34 Me. 554, 56 Am. Dec. 676; Witzler v. Collins, 70 Me. 290, 35 Am. Rep. 327. The receipt of the goods lies at the foundation of the contract to carry safely and deliver. If no goods were received by the carrier, albeit a bill of lading outstand, there... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 730 pages
...bill of lading, says : " It is an instrument of a twofold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character, it is an acknowledgment...can be no valid contract to carry or to deliver." And the doctrine is applicable to transportation contracts made in that form by railway companies and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 726 pages
...bill of lading, says : " It is an instrument of a twofold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character, it is an acknowledgment...received, there can be no valid contract to carry or to deli ver." And the doctrine is applicable to transportation contracts made in that form by railway... | |
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It is an instrument of a twofold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character it is an acknowledgment of the receipt of property on board his vessel by the owner of the vessel. In the latter it is a contract to carry safely... 
