7. Where any cove-keeper or owner, or keeper or other person entitled to the possession, use or occupancy of any wharf, yard, timber-limit, harbour, boom, warehouse, storehouse or other place, or person in charge of logs, pulpwood or other timber in transit by river or otherwise from timber-limits or other lands, or master of a vessel, or carrier by whom a receipt or bill of lading may be given in such capacity for logs, pulpwood or other timber, boards, deals, staves or other lumber or products thereof, is at the same time the owner of such timber or products thereof, or entitled himself, otherwise than in the capacity above-mentioned, to receive such timber or products thereof, any such receipt or bill of lading or any acknowledgment or certificate intended to answer the purpose of such receipt or bill of lading, given and endorsed by such person, shall be as valid and effectual as if the person giving such receipt or bill of lading or acknowledgment or certificate, and endorsing the same, were not one and the same person.
R. S. 1964, c. 318, s. 7.