Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter I - General Provisions

• 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 Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 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 Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 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 Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• 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.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• 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 its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 7-102