12A:7-102 - Definitions and index of definitions - New Jersey Statutes

12A:7-102.   Definitions and index of definitions
    (1)  In this Chapter, 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 Chapter 1 (12A: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 business of strong goods for hire.

   (2)  Other definitions applying to this Chapter or to specified Subchapters  thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:

                "Duly negotiate"                  12A:7-501.

                  "Person entitled under

                   the document"                  12A:7-403(4).

   (3)  Definitions in other Chapters applying to this Chapter and the sections  in which they appear are:

                "Contract for sale"               12A:2-106.

                  "Overseas"                        12A:2-323.

                  "Receipt"  of  goods              12A:2-103.

   (4)  In addition Chapter 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Chapter.

   L.1961, c. 120, s. 7-102.