1997 Minnesota Statutes

     336.7-304 Bills of lading in a set.  

    (1) Except where customary in overseas transportation, a 
 bill of lading must not be issued in a set of parts.  The issuer 
 is liable for damages caused by violation of this subsection.  

    (2) Where a bill of lading is lawfully drawn in a set of 
 parts, each of which is numbered and expressed to be valid only 
 if the goods have not been delivered against any other part, the 
 whole of the parts constitute one bill.  

    (3) Where a bill of lading is lawfully issued in a set of 
 parts and different parts are negotiated to different persons, 
 the title of the holder to whom the first due negotiation is 
 made prevails as to both the document and the goods even though 
 any later holder may have received the goods from the carrier in 
 good faith and discharged the carrier's obligation by surrender 
 of the later holder's part.  

    (4) Any person who negotiates or transfers a single part of 
 a bill of lading drawn in a set is liable to holders of that 
 part as if it were the whole set.  

    (5) The bailee is obliged to deliver in accordance with 
 part 4 of this article against the first presented part of a 
 bill of lading lawfully drawn in a set.  Such delivery 
 discharges the bailee's obligation on the whole bill.  

    HIST: 1965 c 811 s 336.7-304; 1986 c 444