 | William Selwyn - Civil procedure - 1820 - 830 pages
...factor (5). It is to be observed, however, that there is a distinction between a factor and a broker. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for...name, without disclosing that of his principal ; the merchant therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...explained in a recent case of Baring v. Carrie, in which the Lord Chief Justice Abbott observes, (a) " A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for...principal ; the latter, therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods, and gives him authority to... | |
 | John Eykyn Hovenden - Equity pleading and procedure - 1825 - 656 pages
...goods are consigned for * employ' sale, by a merchant residing abroad or at a distance, and the factor usually sells in his own name, without disclosing that of his principal; who, with full knowledge of this usage, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods. But a broker... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Commercial law - 1831 - 354 pages
...Camp. 343. It is to be observed, however, that there is a distinction between a factor and a broker. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for...name, without disclosing that of his principal ; the merchant, therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - Law - 1831 - 590 pages
...& Aid. 137. t A factor is a party to whom goods are consigned for sale by a merchant or other pnrly residing abroad, or at a distance from the place of sale, and he usually sells ihe goods in his own name. Factors are either foreign or home factors. A foreign factor is a persun... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1124 pages
...7T.Jt.359. 1849. and a factor is not merely nominal, for they differ in many important particulars. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for...that of his principal; the latter, therefore, with fufl knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods, and gives... | |
 | William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...distinction between a broker and factor is not merely nominal, for they differ in many important particulars. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for...principal ; the latter, therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods, and gives him authority to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Contracts - 1847 - 536 pages
...principal. " A factor is generally the correspondent of a foreign house, or of a merchant or manufacturer at a distance from the place of sale ; and he usually...own name, without disclosing that of his principal, and has an implied authority so to do. He receives consignments on the one hand, and makes sales and... | |
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A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a merchant residing abroad, or at a distance from the place of sale, and he usually sells in his own name, without disclosing that of his principal. The latter, therefore, with full knowledge... 
