Godowns and warehouses

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..... or the storage of merchandise; the building in which a wholesale dealer keeps his stock of goods for sale; a building in which furniture or other property is housed, a charge being made for the accommodation: a Government building (more fully bonded warehouse) in which dutiable imported goods are kept in bond until it is convenient to the importer to pay the duty. According to Webster's New T .....

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..... of shops, and whither customers go to view them." It must immediately be mentioned that this is not a common parlance meaning but a meaning given to a warehouse referred to in Clerks of Assize Act, 1698. In Black's Law Dictionary (fifth edition), warehouse has been described as a "structure used for the reception and storage of goods and merchandise ". It further states th .....

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..... ouse in Burr v. William Whiteley Ltd. [1902] 19 TLR 117. These cases are not to be taken as laying down an absolute rule of law that no building can be a warehouse if it is connected with a retail business alone; it is possible even in a retail business to have a building which may be in the fullest sense of the term a warehouse." It will appear from the above dictionary meanings of "go .....

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