Okla. Stat. tit. 12A, § 12A-7-102: Definitions and index of definitions

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 the person named in a bill of lading as

the person from whom 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 of 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) "Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of

transportation with a carrier.

(11) "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.