Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Section 7.102
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)

[Reserved.]

(7)

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

(8)

“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. The term 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.

(9)

“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.

(10)

[Reserved.]

(11)

“Shipper” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.

(12)

“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.

(13)

“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 2.106.

(2)

“Lessee in ordinary course of business,” Section 2A.103 (Definitions and Index of Definitions).

(3)

“’Receipt’ of goods,” Section 2.103 (Definitions and Index of Definitions).

(c)

In addition, Chapter 1 (Uniform Commercial Code) contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.
Acts 1967, 60th Leg., p. 2343, ch. 785, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1967.
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 122 (S.B. 1593), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.

Source: Section 7.102 — Definitions and Index of Definitions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.­7.­htm#7.­102 (accessed Mar. 23, 2024).

7.101
Short Title
7.102
Definitions and Index of Definitions
7.103
Relation of Article to Treaty or Statute
7.104
Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Document of Title
7.105
Reissuance in Alternative Medium
7.106
Control of Electronic Document of Title
7.201
Person that May Issue a Warehouse Receipt
7.202
Form of Warehouse Receipt
7.203
Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription
7.204
Duty of Care
7.205
Title Under Warehouse Receipt Defeated in Certain Cases
7.206
Termination of Storage at Warehouse’s Option
7.207
Goods Must Be Kept Separate
7.208
Altered Warehouse Receipts
7.209
Lien of Warehouse
7.210
Enforcement of Warehouse’s Lien
7.302
Through Bills of Lading and Similar Documents of Title
7.303
Diversion
7.304
Tangible Bills of Lading in Set
7.305
Destination Bills
7.306
Altered Bills of Lading
7.307
Lien of Carrier
7.308
Enforcement of Carrier’s Lien
7.309
Duty of Care
7.401
Irregularities in Issue of Receipt or Bill or Conduct of Issuer
7.402
Duplicate Document of Title
7.403
Obligation of Warehouse or Carrier to Deliver
7.404
No Liability for Good Faith Delivery Pursuant to Document of Title
7.501
Form of Negotiation and Requirements of Due Negotiation
7.502
Rights Acquired by Due Negotiation
7.503
Document of Title to Goods Defeated in Certain Cases
7.504
Rights Acquired in Absence of Due Negotiation
7.505
Indorser Not Guarantor for Other Parties
7.506
Delivery Without Indorsement
7.507
Warranties on Negotiation or Delivery of Document of Title
7.508
Warranties of Collecting Bank as to Documents of Title
7.509
Adequate Compliance with Commercial Contract
7.601
Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Documents of Title
7.602
Attachment of Goods Covered by Negotiable Document of Title
7.603
Conflicting Claims

Accessed:
Mar. 23, 2024

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