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1757 Ld. Kames Statute Law Scotl. 438 The power then given..is not..to dispense with delivery upon the spot; but barely to dispense with a repetition of the same solemnity upon every particular portion of land, by making it sufficient to take delivery at any one place contained in the charter.

1766 Under-sheriff i. 38 The new sheriff is not bound to take delivery of a prisoner but in the common gaol of the county.

1801 Morning Post & Gazetteer 5 Feb. 3/2 The goods..were placed in a wharf, and never taken delivery of by the defendant.

1871 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 400/1 In our country, when goods are sold inferior in quality to the samples, instead of the buyers being called upon to take delivery, the sellers are heavily fined.

1923 Sioux City (Iowa) Jrnl. 1 June 16/2 Cash interests were the largest buyers and took delivery on the grain.

1980 InfoWorld 4 Aug. 9/3 For years it has been routine for buyers to order everything from three or four different suppliers..[and] to take delivery from the supplier who shipped first, cancelling the other orders.

2008 J. Nicholson I want my Mummy Back v. 57 In the meantime, I took delivery of a car that I had ordered some weeks before.