§ 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; Storage Under Bond
§ 7.202 Form of Warehouse Receipt
§ 7.203 Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription
§ 7.204 Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Warehouse’s Liability
§ 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; Fungible Goods
§ 7.208 Altered Warehouse Receipts
§ 7.209 Lien of Warehouse
§ 7.210 Enforcement of Warehouse’s Lien
§ 7.301 Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription; “Said to Contain”; “Shipper’s Load and Count”; Improper Handling
§ 7.302 Through Bills of Lading and Similar Documents of Title
§ 7.303 Diversion; Reconsignment; Change of Instructions
§ 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; Contractual Limitation of Carrier’s Liability

Terms Used In Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 7 > Subchapter A - General Provisions

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Effects: includes all personal property and all interest in that property. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • 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. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Signature: includes the mark of a person unable to write, and "subscribe" includes the making of such a mark. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Signed: includes any symbol executed or adopted by a person with present intention to authenticate a writing. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 7.102
  • Week: means seven consecutive days. See Texas Government Code 311.005