AUDIT BRANCH MEMORANDUM NO. 365

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00709R000400070249-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 249
• Publication Date: July 13, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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C]1'_ c E o _ i he Ge r ral Counsel
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13 July 1919
2. T ,tE of ti;i:. case are ct ted in full in cu
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oran~a:~ 365, and need not be re-
. i = i4 cle :r; did title to the automobile pass to
at tihr- of the contract or ryas it postponed until de-
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If the former, then
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Comp. Gen. 268. If the
''` /~ 'camId ?hct k~: entitled to rc_imbursement since
hhve been incurred prior to acquisition of title.
pic, as various factors act to affect
ti ? F r:.iii ion. Ordinarily it may be stated:
(a) h~a t r;Ire good r are specific or identifiable at
u e time of a contract for sale is entered into, and the
E )u_ ar?e in a deliverable state at that tire, the presump??
t orl is that title. ~,as ir:tendcd to pass at the making of
.c contrct.
I z t, r, tio. -0 to ,Icn title passes in
transactions of
u
image or custom dictates.
t~ivles clearly Intend to the contrary any par-
ti cu _.I usaL e or of trade in vogue governs the transaction,
and ir:iu title rt rtes til
e.
(b) Mat in tf.o.b. contr=cts" title passes when the
i as arrive :=~t ~,he ;_:lace after the f.o.b; viz, Mien the
are delivered to the carrier by the seller, when the
f.o.h. point is place of origin.
however, the fort%oing enr_ralizations are always sub; ect
+,-i"icat.io:l 1,,, a bore important principle of law which provides
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?. hence, it is to this principle of law';that:we must loot
i'c,;? t.thc solution in this case. According to conversations which'
,.};( .-1~._ r ci; t~c'ci has conducted ~1I.th the representatives of General
hepr and, l)vc s?as Export and r.r. Robert Murphy, Associate
oun. el of the Overseas Division; 1.r. Houston Lay, Legal
~_dvi ;or, Stc:te Lepi%rtaent; 1z-. Boyd, Chief, Commissary and Welfare
Section, St to Lcpartmcnt, and Mr. Hopkins, Foreign Service Adminis-
trator, St ;te Departz c rt, the rccogniced custom,and usage in these
transaction's i_ that the sale of the automobile'.is not -wholly exe
out?ed until t`ic vehicle has been delivered to the dispatch agent- in
-c.:,:orda.nce with the ce:livcry instructions appearing in the usual
Ic:t.t-_r to the Foreign Distributors Division, General
;. L tio~I. As a r.:a(ttcr of incidental information, the ship-
:::C .'it cil' IL,? vt-}il(:le .i;; nsui ?`d for the account of General Motors
tii:9n tli~it of t ie individual.
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i . .(.ref,rc, in the absence of an xuress intent and urzdcr-
t.ii:_ co itrary , re are required to conclude that title to
`T~ iiic?e coc:icc.rn?d cad n -,,t ;ass to - until it was delivered
i si,atch agent at hewn York, and the transportation charges
inv_:lvcd arc the rfsponcibility of the individual and not of the
u v ' :-c-:ert.
Subject
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