2001 Minnesota Statutes

     336.7-102 Definitions and index of definitions. 

    (1) In this article, 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 warehouse operator, 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 article 1 (section 336.1-201). 

    (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 
 instructions. 

    (h) " Warehouse operator" is a person engaged in the 
 business of storing goods for hire. 

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

    "Duly negotiate," section 336.7-501. 

    "Person entitled under the document," section 336.7-403(4). 

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

    "Contract for sale," section 336.2-106. 

    "Overseas," section 336.2-323. 

    "Receipt" of goods, section 336.2-103. 

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

    HIST: 1965 c 811 s 336.7-102; 1986 c 444