47-7102. Definitions and index of
definitions


A. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:


1. "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.


2. "Carrier" means a person that issues a bill of lading.


3. "Consignee" means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order
the bill promises delivery.


4. "Consignor" means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which
the goods have been received for shipment.


5. "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.


6. "Goods" means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a
contract for storage or transportation.


7. "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.
Issuer 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.


8. "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.


9. "Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a
carrier.


10. "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:


(a) to execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or


(b) to attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol
or process.


11. "Warehouse" means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.


B. Definitions in other chapters applying to this chapter and the sections in which
they appear are:


1. "Contract for sale". Section 47-2106.


2. "Lessee in ordinary course of business". Section 47-2A103.


3. "Receipt of goods". Section 47-2103.


C. In addition, chapter 1 of this title contains general definitions and principles
of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.