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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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BILLS OP LADING 499

ARTICLE 14.

BILLS OF LADING.

1. Application of this article.
2. Contents of bill. Damages.
3. What bill shall not contain.
4. Non-negotiable bill.
5. Negotiable bill. Effect of words "non-
negotiable."
6. Negotiable bills not to be issued in
parts or sets. Liability for violation.
7. Duplicate bills. Damages.
8. Words "non-negotiable" to be on non-
negotiable bill; proviso.
9. Effect of insertion in negotiable bill
of person to be notified.
10. When consignor et al. may not dispute
bill.
11. When carrier must deliver.
12. To whom carrier may deliver.
13. Liability for wrongful delivery.
14. Delivery without taking up bill.
15. Delivery in part without taking up, or
properly marking the bill.
16. Alteration in bill after its issue.
17. Procedure where bill is lost; carrier
still liable.
18. Liability of carrier who marks bill
"duplicate."
19. Carrier's rights against goods.
20. Interpleader.
21. Claim by party not holder of the bill.
22. Carrier's defenses.
23. To whom carrier is liable. Qualifying
terms of bill.
24. Limitations upon attachment in car-
rier's hands.
25. Injunction to aid creditor of holder of
bill.
26. Carrier's lien.
27. When carrier not liable after sale.
28. Negotiation of bill by delivery.
29. Negotiation by endorsement.
30. Transfer. Non-negotiable bill cannot
be negotiated.

31. Who may negotiate bill.
32. Title of party to whom bill is nego-
tiated.
33. Title of transferee. Notice to carrier
of transfer — attachment.
34. When transferee entitled to endorse-
ment.
35. Warranties of party who negotiates or
transfers.
36. Limitations on endorser's liability.
37. For what holder of bill for security, is
not liable.
38. Effect of breach of duty, fraud, etc.,
upon title of subsequent bona fide
holder for value.
39. Allowing original owner to continue
in possession of bill after sale,
pledge, etc.
40. Terms of bill where goods are shipped
on contract or order for their pur-
chase.
41. Transmission of draft with bill at-
tached.
42. Limitations on seller's lien and stop-
page in transitu.
43. Mortgagee or lien holder.
44. Issue of bill without receipt of goods.
45. Issue of false bill.
46. Fraudulent issue of duplicate bills.
47. Shipping goods without title — negotia-
tion of bill.
48. Fraudulent negotiation of bill where
goods not received by carrier.
49. Fraudulently procuring issue of bill.
50. Words "non-negotiable" fraudulently
left off non-negotiable bill.
51. Cases not provided for by this article.
52. Construction of this article.
53. Terms defined.
54. Application of this article, limited.
55. How cited.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1910, ch. 336, sec. 1 (p. 34).

1. Bills of lading issued by any common carrier shall be governed by
this article.

As to agents, factors and consignees, see art. 2, see. 3, et seq. As to negotiable instru-
ments, see art. 13. As to the assignment of choses in action, see art. 8.

The provisions of this article are very similar throughout to those of art. 14A, "Ware-
house Receipts."

As to fraud in connection with bills of lading, see art. 27, sec. 166, et seq.


 

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