# Lickbarrow v Mason

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**Lickbarrow v Mason** ((1788), 2 T. R. 63 and (1794) 5 TR 683) refers to an [English legal case](/source/English_law) in which it was determined that a shipped or endorsed [bill of lading](/source/Bill_of_lading) is a document of title at [common law](/source/Common_law), i.e. a document which can be owned and therefore the [ownership](/source/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](https://pure.solent.ac.uk/en/publications/the-bill-of-lading-as-a-document-of-title-at-common-law)

1. Todd, P., [Lickbarrow v. Mason](https://web.archive.org/web/20150116160011/http://pntodd.users.netlink.co.uk/cases/cases_l/lickb_m.htm), updated 5 October 1997, archived 16 January 2015, accessed 17 May 2021

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