 | Freeman Hunt - Commerce - 1842 - 612 pages
...the servant, who has the custody of the goods, or to the principal ; and in the latter case it qpst be given at such a time, and under such circumstances,...shipowner did not amount to a stoppage in transitu. field, also, that there was no actual possession of the goods by the assignees ; and as there was no... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1845 - 878 pages
...custody, it must be given, as it was in .Lilt v. Cowiey, at such a time and under such circumstances, that the principal by the exercise of reasonable diligence,...it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee (t). Although goods have been delivered at the packers of the purchaser, he having... | |
 | Colin Blackburn Baron Blackburn - Contracts - 1845 - 374 pages
...time, and under such circumstances, " that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable dili" gence, may communicate it to his servant in time to " prevent the delivery to the consignee ; and to hold " that a notice to the principal at a distance is sufficient " to revest... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...principal, whose servant has the custody, it must be given at such a time and under such circumstances, that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable...may communicate it to his servant in time to prevent a delivery to the consignee. Notice to a principal at a distance is insufficient to revest the property... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Contracts - 1853 - 562 pages
...be given, as it was in the case of Litt v. Cowley (&), at such a time, and under such circumstances, that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable...it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee ; and to hold that a notice to a principal at a distance is sufficient to revest the... | |
 | George Ross - Commercial law - 1855 - 956 pages
...whose servant has the custody of them, it must be given at such a time and under such circumstances that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, may communicate it to his servants in time to prevent the delivery to the vendee, 280. TRANSITUS. 1. Where a vendee is in the... | |
 | South Australia - Law - 1896 - 230 pages
...the latter case the notice, to be effectual, must be given at such time and under such circumstances that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, may communicate it to his servant or agent in time to prevent a delivery to the buyer. (2) When notice of stoppage in transitu is given... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Commercial law - 1860 - 934 pages
...as it was in the case of Litt v. Cowley (7 Taunt. 169), at such a time and under such circumstances, that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable...it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee ; and to hold that a notice to a principal at a distance is sufficient to revest the... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1861 - 874 pages
...custody, it must be given, as it was in Lilt v. Cowley (k), at such a time and under such circumstances, that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable...it to his servant in time to prevent the delivery to the consignee (i). Although goods have been delivered at the packers of the purchaser, he having... | |
 | David Maclachlan - Maritime law - 1860 - 1046 pages
...must be given as it was in the case of Litt v. Cowley,' at such a time, and under such circumstances, to the consignee ; and to hold that a notice to a principal at a distance is sufficient to revest the... | |
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In the latter case the notice, to be effectual, must be given at such time and under such circumstances that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, may communicate it to his servant or agent in time to prevent a delivery to the buyer. 
