A straight bill of lading refers to a bill of lading which is filled with a named consignee only in the "consignee box". Because of different stipulations of straight bill of lading in different countries, when carriers have delivered cargos without buyers' presentation of straight bill of lading, the application of law for settling the dispute has become as the key point. Recently since more and more issues and argument concerning it have come out, the author realizes that it is necessary to do some research on it by the way of real evidence and comparison.Firstly, the concept of straight bill of lading is briefly introduced in the article with the relative stipulations of straight bill of lading in main countries and also the legal characters of straight bill of lading. The author pays emphasis on analyzing the legal characters and functions of straight bill of lading in China Maritime Law and clearly puts forward that in China, the carriers must deliver cargos against presentation the straight bill of lading according to the stipulations of chapter four in China Maritime Law.Secondly, the classification of delivering cargos without presentation of straight bill of lading is introduced in the article. And the article mainly analyzes the theory of different functions in different phases of bill of lading then the author puts forward that the dispute of delivering cargo without presentation of bill of lading should be classified as the breach not the infringement.Thirdly, the applicable law for delivering cargo without presentation of straight bill of lading is introduced. In the first part, the article introduces that the conflict...
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