§ 7401. Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.
§ 7402. Duplicate receipt or bill; overissue.
§ 7403. Obligation of warehouseman or carrier to deliver; excuse.
§ 7404. No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to receipt or bill.
The obligations imposed by this division on an issuer apply to a document of title regardless of the fact that:
Neither a duplicate nor any other document of title purporting to cover goods already represented by an outstanding document of the same issuer confers any right in the goods, except as provided in the case of bills in a set, overissue of documents for fungible goods and substitutes for lost, stolen or destroyed documents. But the issuer is liable for damages caused by his overissue or failure to identify a duplicate document as such by conspicuous notation on its face.
(a) General rule.-- The bailee must deliver the goods to a person entitled under the document who complies with subsections (b) and (c), unless and to the extent that the bailee establishes any of the following:
(b) Satisfaction of lien.-- A person claiming goods covered by a document of title must satisfy the lien of the bailee where the bailee so requests or where the bailee is prohibited by law from delivering the goods until the charges are paid.
(c) Surrender of negotiable document.-- Unless the person claiming is one against whom the document confers no right under section 7503(a) (relating to document of title to goods defeated in certain cases), he must surrender for cancellation or notation of partial deliveries any outstanding negotiable document covering the goods, and the bailee must cancel the document or conspicuously note the partial delivery thereon or be liable to any person to whom the document is duly negotiated.
(d) Definition of "person entitled under the document".-- "Person entitled under the document" means holder in the case of a negotiable document, or the person to whom delivery is to be made by the terms of or pursuant to written instructions under a nonnegotiable document.
A bailee who in good faith including observance of reasonable commercial standards has received goods and delivered or otherwise disposed of them according to the terms of the document of title or pursuant to this division is not liable therefor. This rule applies even though the person from whom he received the goods had no authority to procure the document or to dispose of the goods and even though the person to whom he delivered the goods had no authority to receive them.
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