{"data":{"id":"us-ca/com-7401","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"COM § 7401","heading":"","body":"The obligations imposed by this division on an issuer apply to a document of title even if:\n(1) the document does not comply with the requirements of this division or of any other statute, rule, or regulation regarding its issuance, form, or content;\n(2) the issuer violated laws regulating the conduct of its business;\n(3) the goods covered by the document were owned by the bailee when the document was issued; or\n(4) the person issuing the document is not a warehouse but the document purports to be a warehouse receipt.","path":["Commercial Code - COM","DIVISION 7. DOCUMENTS OF TITLE [7101. - 7603.]","CHAPTER 4. Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations [7401. - 7404.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"022c0c47a39219e96ddd2976db4ecc1476c0d07f41c196afceb970c089da9cce","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/com-7309","next":"us-ca/com-7402"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}