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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="7-104" title_number="7" title_name="Documents of Title" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="In General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A document of title other than one described in subsection (a) is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A document of title is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.</text>
  </level>
</section>
