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DOCK WARRANT

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 364 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOCK See also:WARRANT , in See also:law, a document by which the owner of a marine or See also:river dock certifies that the holder is entitled to goods imported and warehoused in the docks. In the Factors See also:Act 1889 it is included in the phrase " document of See also:title " and is defined as any document or See also:writing, being See also:evidence of the title of any See also:person therein named . . . to the See also:property in any goods or merchandise lying in any warehouse or See also:wharf and signed or certified by the person having the custody of the goods. It passes by See also:indorsement and delivery and transfers the See also:absolute right to the goods described in it. A dock warrant is liable to a See also:stamp See also:duty of threepence, which may be denoted by an adhesive stamp, to be cancelled by the person by whom the See also:instrument is executed or issued.

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