DELIVERANCE
deliverance. 1. A jury’s verdict. 2. A judicial opinion or judgment. 3. A court’s order directing
that a person in custody be released; esp., such an order by an ecclesiastical court. — Also termed
writ of deliverance. 4.Archaic. In a replevin action, a writ ordering the redelivery to the owner of
second deliverance.Hist. A second replevin remedy after the plaintiff has been nonsuited and
the distrained property has been returned to the defendant. — Also termed writ of second
“And at the common law, the plaintiff might have brought another replevin, and so in
infinitum, to the intolerable vexation of the defendant. Wherefore the statute of Westm. 2, c. 2
restrains the plaintiff, when nonsuited, from suing any fresh replevin, but allows him a judicial
writ issuing out of the original record, and called a writ of second deliverance, in order to have the
same distress again delivered to him, on giving the like security as before. And, if the plaintiff be a
second time nonsuit, or if the defendant has judgment upon verdict … he shall have a writ or return
irreplevisable; after which no writ of second deliverance shall be allowed.” 3 William Blackstone,
Commentaries on the Laws of England 150 (1767).
5. Such a release (as in sense 3) or redelivery (as in sense 4).
DELIVERED AT FRONTIER
delivered at frontier.A mercantile-contract term allocating the rights and duties of the buyer
and the seller of goods with respect to delivery, payment, and risk of loss, whereby the seller must
(1) clear the goods for export, (2) arrange and pay for transportation, and (3) deliver the goods to a
specified place on the importing nation’s border. • The seller’s delivery is complete (and the risk of
loss passes to the buyer) when the goods arrive at the designated point and are placed at the
disposal of the buyer. This term is generally used when the delivery place is on land, but it places
no explicit restrictions on the mode of carriage. If the delivery place is a border port and delivery
is complete either onboard or alongside the vessel, the term delivered ex ship or delivered ex quay
is preferred. — Abbr. DAF. Cf. DELIVERED EX SHIP; DELIVERED EX QUAY. [Blacks Law 8th]