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In the case of Allan and Steuart contra Creditors of Stein, No 49. p. 4949, it was virtually found, both in the Court of Session and in the House of Lords, that the transmission of bills of loading to the purchaser three weeks before his bankruptoy, did not bar the seller from stopping, in transitu, such of the goods as were not landed and delivered.