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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="7-403" title_number="7" title_name="Documents of Title" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A bailee shall deliver the goods to a person entitled under a document of title if the person complies with subsections (b) and (c), unless and to the extent that the bailee establishes any of the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Delivery of the goods to a person whose receipt was rightful as against the claimant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Damage to or delay, loss, or destruction of the goods for which the bailee is not liable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Previous sale or other disposition of the goods in lawful enforcement of a lien or on a warehouse’s lawful termination of storage;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The exercise by a seller of its right to stop delivery pursuant to § 2-705 or by a lessor of its right to stop delivery pursuant to § 2A-526;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A diversion, reconsignment, or other disposition pursuant to § 7-303;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Release, satisfaction, or any other personal defense against the claimant; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Any other lawful excuse.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person claiming goods covered by a document of title shall satisfy the bailee’s lien if the bailee so requests or if the bailee is prohibited by law from delivering the goods until the charges are paid.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Unless a person claiming the goods is a person against which the document of title does not confer a right under § 7-503(a):</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The person claiming under a document shall surrender possession or control of any outstanding negotiable document covering the goods for cancellation or indication of partial deliveries; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The bailee shall cancel the document or conspicuously indicate in the document the partial delivery or the bailee is liable to any person to which the document is duly negotiated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
