A document a carrier or agent gives a shipper to carry the goods. It can be a receipt for cargo that is to be taken to a destination .
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BILL OF LADING ELECTRONIC REGISTRY ORGANIZATION (BOLERO)
An international group whose members are leading banks, shippers, and firms. They give information business to business over the internet. All documents needed for trade are available online. Only verifyable […]
BILL OF MATERIALS (BOM)
1. a material list a contractor uses for the contract. It is needed to complete the order. 2. a list of parts to fix something. Refer to bill of quantities.
BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES
A special act of the legislature which inflicts a punishment, less than death, upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course […]
BILL OF PARCELS
A statement sent to the buyer of goods, along with the goods, exhibiting in detail the items composing the parcel and their several prices, to enable him to detect any […]
BILL OF PARTICULARS
In practice . A written statement or specification of the particulars of the demand for which an action at law is brought, or of a defendant’s set-off against such demand, […]
BILL OF PEACE
One which is filed when a person has a right which may be controverted by various persons, at different times, and by different actions. Ritchie v. Dorland. 6 Cal. 3-“>; […]
BILL OF PRIVILEGE
In old English law . A method of proceeding against attorneys and officers of the court not liable to arrest. 3 Bl. Comm. 289.
BILL OF PROOF
In English practice. The name given, in the mayor’s court of London, to a species of intervention by a third person laying claim to the subject- matter in dispute between […]
BILL OF QUANTITIES (BOQ)
A list of materials needed to make and keep a structure in working order.
BILL OF RESOURCES
The resources needed to make a product at a certain rate. The critical resources are highlighted to help in planning.
BILL OF REVIEW
One which is brought to have a decree of the court reviewed, corrected, or reversed. Dodge v. Northrop, 85 Mich. 243, 48 N. V. 505.
BILL OF REVIVOR
One which is brought to continue a suit which has abated before its final consummation , as. for example, by death, or marriage of a female plaintiff. Clarke v. Mathewson. […]
BILL OF REVIVOR AND SUPPLEMENT
One which is a compound of a supplemental bill and bill of revivor , and not only continues the suit, which has abated by the death of the plaintiff, or […]
BILL OF SALE
In contracts. A written agreement under seal, by which one person assigns or transfers his right to or interest in goods and personal chattels to another. An instrument by which, […]
BILL OF SALE
A document that transfers ownership of property. If a condition must be met first than its called a conditional bill of sale .
BILL OF SIGHT
When an importer of goods is ignorant of their exact quantity or quality, so that he cannot make a perfect entry of them, he may give to the customs officer […]
BILL OF SIGHT
A document that requests customs examine a shipment. A full set of documents is not needed. Its the goal to submit a perfect bill of entry after the shipment is […]
BILL OF STORE
In English law . A kind of license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for their voyage, custom free. Jacob.
BILL OF SUFFERANCE
In English law . A license granted at the custom-house to a merchant, to suffer him to trade from one English port to another, without paying custom. Cowell. 12. In […]
BILL PAY
An automated bill paying service set up by the bank. When the customer gives the relevant information about the bill it is automatically taken out of the account and reported […]
BILL PAYABLE
In a merchant’s accounts, all bills which he has accepted, and promissory notes which he has made, are called “bills payable,” and are entered in a ledger account under that […]
BILL PENAL
A written obligation by which a debtor acknowledges himself indebted in a certain sum, and binds himself for the payment thereof, in a larger sum, called a “penalty.”
BILL PRESENTMENT
1. giving a bill of exchange to a bank to be accepted as payment. 2. sending an electronic invoice so a customer can review charges before making a payment.
BILL QUIA TIMET
A bill invoking the aid of equity “because he fears,” that is, because the complainant apprehends an injury to his property rights or interests, from the fault or neglect of […]