Fla. Stat. § 677.401: Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.

The obligations imposed by this chapter on an issuer apply to a document of title even if:

(1) The document does not comply with the requirements of this chapter or of any other statute, rule of law, or regulation regarding its issuance, form, or content;

(2) The issuer violated laws regulating the conduct of its business;

(3) The goods covered by the document were owned by the bailee when the document was issued; or

(4) The person issuing the document is not a warehouse but the document purports to be a warehouse receipt.

History.—s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 634, ch. 97-102; s. 41, ch. 2010-131.