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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 77.1040: Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code
  2. 8. Commercial Transactions
  3. Chapter 77 — Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person.

      (2) A document of title other than one described in subsection (1) of this section is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.

      (3) A document of title is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.

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