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BREAKING BULK

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BREAKING BULK , a nautical See also:

term for the taking out of a portion of the See also:cargo of a See also:ship, or the beginning to unload; and used in a legal sense for taking anything out of a package or See also:parcel, or in any way destroying its entirety. It was thus important in connexion with the subject of See also:bailment, involving as it did the curious distinction that where a bailee received See also:possession of goods in a See also:box or package, and then sold them as a whole, he was guilty only of a See also:breach of See also:trust, but if he " See also:broke bulk " or caused a separation of the goods, and sold a See also:part or all, he was guilty of See also:felony. This distinction was abolished by the See also:Larceny See also:Act 1861, which enacted that whoever, being a bailee of any See also:chattel, See also:money or valuable See also:security, should fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use, or the use of any See also:person other than the owner, although he should not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment, should be guilty of larceny (s. 3).

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