Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 6A-7 > Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions

• Agricultural liming materials: means a product whose calcium and magnesium compounds are capable of neutralizing soil acidity. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Composting: means any aerobic, thermophyllic process which allows for the conversion of raw organic materials into a stable soil amendment. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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.
• Distributor: means any person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces, compounds, mixes, or blends soil amendments, or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or otherwise supplies 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
• 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
• 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.
• Official sample: means any sample of soil amendment taken by the director or his or her agent and designated as official by the director. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• Other ingredients: means the nonsoil amending ingredients present in soil amendments. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3
• 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 individual, partnership, association, firm or corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-21-3
• 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
• 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.
• 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 Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102
• Weight: means the weight of material as offered for sale. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-22-3