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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="7-102" title_number="7" title_name="Documents of Title" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="In General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title, unless the context otherwise requires:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Bailee” means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Carrier” means a person that issues a bill of lading.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Consignee” means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Consignor” means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Delivery order” means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Reserved.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>“Goods” means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>“Issuer” means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. The term includes a person for which an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, even if the issuer did not receive any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer’s instructions.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>“Person entitled under the document” means the holder, in the case of a negotiable document of title, or the person to which delivery of the goods is to be made by the terms of, or pursuant to instructions in a record under, a nonnegotiable document of title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Reserved.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>“Sign” means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>“Shipper” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>“Warehouse” means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Definitions in other titles applying to this title and the sections in which they appear are:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Contract for sale”, § 2-106.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Lessee in ordinary course”, § 2A-103.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Receipt” of goods, § 2-103.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In addition, Title 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
