MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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TITLE 7. WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS, BILLS OF LADING AND OTHER
DOCUMENTS OF TITLE.

SUBTITLE 1. IN GENERAL.

7-101. Short title.

This [subtitle] TITLE shall be known and may be
cited as MARYLAND Uniform Commercial Code—Documents of
Title.

7—102. Definitions and index of definitions.

(1) In this [subtitle] 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 [subtitle] TITLE 1
(§ 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 documents, 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