§ 6A-7-401 Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer
§ 6A-7-402 Duplicate document of title — Overissue
§ 6A-7-403 Obligation of bailee to deliver — Excuse
§ 6A-7-404 No liability for good-faith delivery pursuant to document of title

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 6A-7 > Part 4 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations

  • agricultural operations: includes any commercial enterprise that has as its primary purpose horticulture, viticulture, viniculture, floriculture, forestry, stabling of horses, dairy farming, or aquaculture, or the raising of livestock, including for the production of fiber, furbearing animals, poultry, or bees, and all such other operations, uses, and activities as the director, in consultation with the chief of division of agriculture, may determine to be agriculture, or an agricultural activity, use or operation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-23-4
  • 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
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-7-102