Lickbarrow v Mason

Lickbarrow v Mason ((1788), 2 T. R. 63 and (1794) 5 TR 683) refers to an English legal case in which it was determined that a shipped or endorsed bill of lading is a document of title at common law, i.e. a document which can be owned and therefore the ownership of it could be sold or otherwise transferred to someone else. The legal nature of a bill of lading as a document of title is said to originate from this case,^[1] in which bills of lading were endorsed in favour of the plaintiffs, Lickbarrow, against a payment to be made to the seller's agent.^[2]

References

1. Curwen, N. (2007), The bill of lading as a document of title at common law
2. Todd, P., Lickbarrow v. Mason, updated 5 October 1997, archived 16 January 2015, accessed 17 May 2021