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Definition of "bill of lading" []

  • A document issued by a carrier to a shipper, listing and acknowledging receipt of goods for transport and specifying terms of delivery. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bill of lading" in a sentence
  • "We have Inclos'd Sent you a Copy of yr: list with our Observations on those what we can do towards [illegible] recovering of those of all that we have any hopes of you may depend on; You have herein a bill of lading & a first bill of Exchange for the Tobacco & mony already mentioned We are Sr."
  • "Robert Carter writes to London merchant John Pemberton, July 2 [9], 1723, following up on an earlier letter in which he had sent a bill of lading for 40 hogsheads of tobacco oon board the Vine."
  • "Robert Carter writes to John Sterling and John Zuil, June 3, 1727, a newly-formed partnership, to send them a bill of lading (not present) for tobacco that he is shipping to them on board Captain Stephenson's ship."
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