13 Guam Code Ann. § 7102
Terms Used In 13 Guam Code Ann. § 7102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
(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.
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13 Guam Code Ann. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
DIV. 7 WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS, BILLS OF LADING AND OTHER DOCUMENTS OF TITLE
(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 Division 1 (Section 1201).
(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 docu- ment 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 division or to specified chapters thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:
Duly negotiate. Section 7501.
Person entitled under the document. Section 7403(4).
(3) Definitions in other divisions applying to this division and the sections in which they appear are:
Contract for sale. Section 2106.
Overseas. Section 2323.
Receipt of goods. Section 2103.
(4) In addition Division 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this division.
