When goods have been delivered to a common carrier, and they’re damaged, the owner is the primary person with a right to sue. Where the consignor remains the owner, he retains the right to take action.\u00a0 \u00a0The principle that the owner is the proper party to sue may be varied by the terms of a contract between the consignor and consignee.<\/p>\n
A carrier is obliged to obey notices stopping goods in transit by the seller who is unpaid, exercising the statutory right under the Sale of Goods Act. The seller may elect to resume possession of the goods.\u00a0 The notice need not be given in any particular form.<\/p>\n
The carrier is obliged to redeliver the goods of the seller.\u00a0 The cost must be borne by the seller.\u00a0 If he fails to do so, he may be liable for having converted the goods.<\/p>\n\n
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Carriers Act The Carriers Act\u00a0 1830 sought to protect common carriers carrying parcels with articles of significant value.\u00a0 The Act provides that no common carrier by land is to be responsible for damage to articles of the property of certain descriptions contained in a parcel or package delivered to the carrier to be carried for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31410,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions\/31410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}