Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 6A-7 > Part 3 - Bills of Lading: Special 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.
• 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 Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Brand: means the term, designation, trade mark, product name or other specific designation under which individual soil amendments are offered for sale. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Compost: means a soil amending material resulting from the aerobic, thermophyllic, microbial processing of organic materials. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Composter: means a producer of compost registered with the director under this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-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 Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Distribute: means to import, consign, manufacture, produce, compound, mix or blend soil amendments or offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply soil amendments in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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 Rhode Island General Laws 6A-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.
• Label: means the display of all written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container or statement accompanying a soil amendment. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Labeling: means all written, printed or graphic matter, upon or accompanying any soil amendment, or advertisements, brochures, posters, or television or radio announcements used in promoting the sale of any soil amendments. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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.
• Person: means individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Registrant: means the person who registers soil amendments under the provisions of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Soil amending ingredient: means a substance which improves the physical characteristics of the soil. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Soil amendment: means any substance which is intended to improve the physical characteristics of the soil, except commercial fertilizers, agricultural liming materials, unmanipulated animal manures, unmanipulated vegetable manures, unmanipulated natural substances (charcoal, sand, pumice, and clay, etc. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Ton: means a net weight of two thousand (2,000) pounds avoirdupois. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8