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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="7-503" title_number="7" title_name="Documents of Title" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A document of title confers no right in goods against a person that before issuance of the document had a legal interest or a perfected security interest in the goods and did not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Deliver or entrust the goods or any document of title covering the goods to the bailor or the bailor’s nominee with:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>Actual or apparent authority to ship, store, or sell;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>Power to obtain delivery under § 7-403; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>Power of disposition under § 2-403, § 2A-304(2), § 2A-305(2), § 9-320, or § 9-321(c) or other statute or rule of law; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Acquiesce in the procurement by the bailor or its nominee of any document.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Title to goods based upon an unaccepted delivery order is subject to the rights of any person to which a negotiable warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering the goods has been duly negotiated. That title may be defeated under § 7-504 to the same extent as the rights of the issuer or a transferee from the issuer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Title to goods based upon a bill of lading issued to a freight forwarder is subject to the rights of any person to which a bill issued by the freight forwarder is duly negotiated. However, delivery by the carrier in accordance with Subtitle 4 pursuant to its own bill of lading discharges the carrier’s obligation to deliver.</text>
  </level>
</section>
