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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Other commercial matters - Mercantile agents - Miscellaneous provisions

307: Mode of transferring documents

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“How to give a document to someone else”

When you want to transfer a document, you can do it in two ways. The first way is by writing something on the document, which is called endorsement. The second way is by simply handing over the document to someone else. You can hand over the document if it’s normally done that way, if the document itself says you can do that, or if the document says that whoever has it can get the goods it talks about.

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Mercantile agents: Miscellaneous provisions

307Mode of transferring documents

  1. For the purposes of this subpart, the transfer of a document may be by—

  2. endorsement; or
    1. delivery, if the document—
      1. is by custom or by its express terms transferable by delivery; or
        1. makes the goods deliverable to the bearer.

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