The Import and Export Trade, Or, Modern Commercial Practice (formerly Known as Modern Business Methods): Being a Guide to the Operations Incidental to the Trade of the United Kingdom, with the Customary Documents and CorrespondenceMacmillan, 1905 - 272 pages |
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... sold on " Loco , " F.o.b. , Franco , and C.f. & i . Terms ; Drafts drawn in Foreign Currencies or in Sterling ; Advice of Drafts ; Letters of Hypothecation ... CHAPTER XIII 98 . Shipping Goods " on Consignment " : Invoices and Pro forma ...
... sold on " Loco , " F.o.b. , Franco , and C.f. & i . Terms ; Drafts drawn in Foreign Currencies or in Sterling ; Advice of Drafts ; Letters of Hypothecation ... CHAPTER XIII 98 . Shipping Goods " on Consignment " : Invoices and Pro forma ...
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... sold in large quantities , and retail trade when goods which have been bought wholesale are sold to the public in small parcels or in single articles . Thus , a merchant is a wholesale trader ; a shopkeeper is a retail trader . The ...
... sold in large quantities , and retail trade when goods which have been bought wholesale are sold to the public in small parcels or in single articles . Thus , a merchant is a wholesale trader ; a shopkeeper is a retail trader . The ...
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... sold . In office parlance this term is restricted more or less to goods imported or exported . Commodities are , properly speaking , articles of the first necessity either for comfort or for the purpose of industry . Thus tea , cotton ...
... sold . In office parlance this term is restricted more or less to goods imported or exported . Commodities are , properly speaking , articles of the first necessity either for comfort or for the purpose of industry . Thus tea , cotton ...
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... sold through a broker or agent , it is termed a sale on commission ; and when the goods are sold by an auctioneer to the highest bidder at a public sale , it is a sale by auction . Thus , wool is sold by the farmer direct to the wool ...
... sold through a broker or agent , it is termed a sale on commission ; and when the goods are sold by an auctioneer to the highest bidder at a public sale , it is a sale by auction . Thus , wool is sold by the farmer direct to the wool ...
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... sold under some well- known brand , trade mark , or description , a sample or standard being unnecessary ; for example , " Hennessy's Three Star Brandy , " , " " Bannermill 2 fold 40s . Mule Twist , " & c . On Approval means that the ...
... sold under some well- known brand , trade mark , or description , a sample or standard being unnecessary ; for example , " Hennessy's Three Star Brandy , " , " " Bannermill 2 fold 40s . Mule Twist , " & c . On Approval means that the ...
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abroad Account Sales agent amount Bales bank Barratry Bill of Lading Bombay Bond Bottomry Bradford British buyer Calcutta Cape cargo cent centimetres Certificate charges Charter Party chiefly clause commercial consignee contract cost cotton cubic Customs damage decimal decimetre declare delivered discount documents draft duty exports firm foreign France freight Grammes hectolitres hectometres Home Trade imports included Indent India invoice kilogrammes litre Liverpool Lloyd's loading London Manchester manufactured marine insurance Master meaning trade measure merchandise merchant Messrs metric system millimetres milreis myriametre Office owner packages packing paid particular average passport payable payment port principal railway rate of exchange received risk rupees sailing sell seller ship Ship's shipment shipowner sold square metre stamp steamer telegram telegraph thereof Total Transhipment Trieste underwriters United Kingdom usually vessel voyage weight wool words yards
Popular passages
Page 13 - Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any statute in that behalf, there is no implied warranty or condition as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose...
Page 161 - ... arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof...
Page 117 - Touching the adventures and perils which we the assurers are contented to bear and do take upon us in this voyage...
Page 161 - Part thereof; and in case of any Loss or Misfortune, it shall be lawful to the Assured, their Factors, Servants, and Assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the Defence, Safeguard and Recovery of the Said Ooods and Merchandises and Ship, &e., or any Part thereof, without Prejudice to this Insurance; to the Charges whereof we, the Assurers, will contribute, each one according to the Rate and Quantity of his Sum herein assured.
Page 13 - ... (a) when he signifies his approval or acceptance to the seller, or does any other act adopting the transaction ; (b) if he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller, but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods, on the expiration of such time, and, if no time has been fixed, on the expiration of a reasonable time. What is a reasonable time is a question of fact.
Page 63 - Endorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all Rights of Suit, and be subject to the same Liabilities in respect of such Goods as if the Contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself.
Page 14 - Where the seller delivers to the buyer the goods he contracted to sell, mixed with goods of a different description not included in the contract, the buyer may accept the goods which are in accordance with the contract and reject the rest, or he may reject the whole.
Page 159 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 118 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed, are warranted free from- average, unless general, or the ship be stranded ; sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides, and skins, are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent.
Page 160 - Merchandises until the same be there discharged and safely landed ; and it shall be lawful for the said Ship, &c., in this Voyage to proceed and sail to and touch and stay at any Ports or Places whatsoever without Prejudice to this Insurance.