166 WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS. [ART. 14A

ARTICLE XIV A.

WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS.*

1. Who may issue; what considered a warehouse.

1910, ch. 406, sec. 1 (p. 46). 1914, ch. 147.

1. Warehouse receipts may be issued by any warehouseman. A
warehouse shall be considered to be any building or structure where
property of any kind is stored; provided, however, that a lot or parcel
of land with or without any building or structure thereon, which lot or
parcel of land is enclosed with a fence, or otherwise, shall be considered
to be a warehouse, if bulky or heavy property is stored thereon.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

52.

There is a manifest inconsistency between this section and article 27,
section 194, of the Code of 1904—see footnote to article 27, section 209, of
the Annotated Code. Hence this section by implication repealed article 27,
section 194, of the Code of 1004. State v. Gambrill, 115 Md. 509.

57.

This section applied in construing article 14A, section 52, and article 27,
section 194, of the Code of 1904—see footnote to article 27, section 209, of
the Annotated Code. State v. Gambrill, 115 Md. 510.

Distillery Warehouses.
61.

This section is constitutional and valid. A distillery warehouse receipt
represents the property and its transfer in the usual course of business by
way of sale or pledge, operates as a delivery of the property therein de-
scribed. Pledgees held to take a good title as against creditors. Merchants
Bank v. Roxbury Distilling Co., 196 U. S. 100. See also the opinion of the
special master in this case, particularly on page 82.

*As to fraud in connection with warehouse receipts, see article 27, sections 132
and 210.

For a case involving various questions of evidence in a prosecution for obtain-
ing money by the fraudulent issue of warehouse receipts, see Gambrill v. State,
320 Md. 206.