Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-305 – Destination bills
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(a) Instead of issuing a bill of lading to the consignor at the place of shipment, a carrier, at the request of the consignor, may procure the bill to be issued at destination or at any other place designated in the request.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-305
- Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
- Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
- Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
- Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
- Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
(b) Upon request of any person entitled as against a carrier to control the goods while in transit and on surrender of possession or control of any outstanding bill of lading or other receipt covering the goods, the issuer, subject to § 7-105, may procure a substitute bill to be issued at any place designated in the request.
5A Del. C. 1953, §§ ?7-305; 55 Del. Laws, c. 349; 74 Del. Laws, c. 332, § ?39;