886                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 538

Sub-title 7

Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and
Other Documents of Title

Part 1
General

7—101. Short Title.

This Sub-title shall be known and may be cited as Uniform Com-
mercial Code—Documents of Title.

7—102. Definitions and Index of Definitions.

(1)  In this Sub-title, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)  "Bailee" means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill
of lading or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods
and contracts to deliver them.

(b)  "Consignee" means the person named in a bill to whom or to
whose order the bill promises delivery.

(c)  "Consignor" means the person named in a bill as the person
from whom the goods have been received for shipment.

(d)  "Delivery order" means a written order to deliver goods
directed to a warehouseman, carrier or other person who in the
ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of
lading.

(e)  "Document" means document of title as defined in the general
definitions in Sub-title 1 (Section 1—201).

(f)  "Goods" means all things which are treated as movable for the
purposes of a contract of storage or transportation.

(g)  "Issuer" means a bailee who issues a document except that in
relation to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person who
orders the possessor of goods to deliver. Issuer includes any person
for whom an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document
if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue docu-
ments, notwithstanding that the issuer received no goods or that the
goods were misdescribed or that in any other respect the agent or
employee violated his instructions.

(h) "Warehouseman" is a person engaged in the business of stor-
ing goods for hire.

(2)  Other definitions applying to this Sub-title or to specified
Parts thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:

"Duly negotiate." Section 7—501.

"Person entitled under the document." Section 7—403 (4).

(3)  Definitions in other Sub-titles applying to this Sub-title and the
sections in which they appear are:

"Contract for sale." Section 2—106
"Overseas." Section 2—323.
"Receipt" of goods. Section 2—103.