N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code Law § 7-102: Definitions and Index of Definitions

Section 7--102. Definitions and Index of Definitions.

(a) In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "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.

(2) "Carrier" means a person that issues a bill of lading.

(3) "Consignee" means a person named in a bill of lading to which or

to whose order the bill promises delivery.

(4) "Consignor" means a person named in a bill of lading as the person

from which the goods have been received for shipment.

(5) "Delivery order" means a record that contains an order to deliver

goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the

ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of

lading.

(6) "Good faith" means honesty in fact and the observance of

reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.

(7) "Goods" means all things that are treated as movable for the

purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.

(8) "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. The term includes a person for which an

agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or

employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, even if the

issuer did not receive any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any

other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions.

(9) "Person entitled under the document" means the holder, in the case

of a negotiable document of title, or the person to which delivery of

the goods is to be made by the terms of, or pursuant to instructions in

a record under, a nonnegotiable document of title.

(10) {Reserved}.

(11) Reserved.

(12) "Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of

transportation with a carrier.

(13) "Warehouse" means a person engaged in the business of storing

goods for hire.

(b) Definitions in other articles applying to this article and the

sections in which they appear are:

(1) "Contract for sale", Section 2--106.

(2) "Lessee in the ordinary course of business", Section 2A--103.

(3) "Receipt" of goods, Section 2--103.

(c) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles

of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.