{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-7-403","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-7-403","heading":"Obligation of warehouse or carrier to deliver; excuse.","body":"(a) A bailee shall deliver the goods to a person entitled under a document of title if the person complies with subsections (b) and (c), unless and to the extent that the bailee establishes any of the following:\n(1) Delivery of the goods to a person whose receipt was rightful as against the claimant;\n(2) Damage to or delay, loss, or destruction of the goods for which the bailee is not liable;\n(3) Previous sale or other disposition of the goods in lawful enforcement of a lien or on warehouse’s lawful termination of storage;\n(4) The exercise by a seller of its right to stop delivery pursuant to Section 75-2-705 or by a lessor of its right to stop delivery pursuant to Section 75-2A-526;\n(5) A diversion, reconsignment, or other disposition pursuant to Section 75-7-303;\n(6) Release, satisfaction, or any other fact according a personal defense against the claimant; or\n(7) Any other lawful excuse.\n(b) A person claiming goods covered by a document of title shall satisfy the bailee’s lien if the bailee so requests or the bailee is prohibited by law from delivering the goods until the charges are paid.\n(c) Unless a person claiming the goods is one against which the document of title does not confer a right under Section 75-7-503(a):\n(1) The person claiming under a document shall surrender possession or control of any outstanding negotiable document covering the goods for cancellation or indication of partial deliveries; and\n(2) The bailee shall cancel the document or conspicuously indicate in the document the partial delivery or be liable to any person to which the document is duly negotiated.","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 7. Uniform Commercial Code—Documents of Title","Part 4. Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.75.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:13Z","sha256":"e3e2bd233e8fbf898d8a463efc99e20d22b441d5281fdcdab08471913f9054c1","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-7-402","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-7-404","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}