7-102 - Definitions and Index of Definitions.

Section 7--102. Definitions and Index of Definitions. (1) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Bailee" means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading  or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. (b) "Consignee" means the person named in a bill to  whom  or  to whose order the bill promises delivery. (c) "Consignor"  means  the  person named in a bill as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment. (d) "Delivery order" means  a  written  order  to  deliver  goods directed  to  a  warehouseman, carrier or other person who in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts  or bills of lading. (e) "Document"  means document of title as defined in the general definitions in Article 1 (Section 1--201). (f) "Goods" means all things which are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation. (g) "Issuer" means a bailee who issues a document except that  in relation  to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person who orders the possessor of goods to deliver. Issuer includes any person for whom an agent or employee purports to  act  in issuing  a  document  if  the  agent  or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents,  notwithstanding  that the issuer  received  no  goods  or  that  the  goods  were misdescribed or that  in  any  other  respect  the  agent  or employee violated his instructions. (h) "Warehouseman" is a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. (2)  Other  definitions applying to this Article or to specified Parts  thereof, and the sections in which they appear are: "Duly negotiate". Section 7--501. "Person entitled under the document". Section 7--403 (4). (3) Definitions in other Articles applying to  this  Article  and  the  sections in which they appear are: "Contract for sale". Section 2--106. "Merchant". Section 2--104. "Overseas". Section 2--323. "Receipt" of goods. Section 2--103. (4)  In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles  of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.