Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 7 > Article 1 - General

• 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.
• bailee: means a person who, by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title, acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• carrier: means a person who issues a bill of lading. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person who, in the ordinary course of business, issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• issuer: includes a 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, even if the issuer did not receive the goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in another respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112