Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 62A Uniform Commercial Code - Chapter 7 Warehouse Receipts, Bills Of Lading And Other Documents Of Title

62A.7-101 Short title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as Uniform Commercial CodeDocuments of Title.[1965 ex.s. c 157 § 7-101.] ...
62A.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 ...
62A.7-103 Relation of Article to treaty, statute, tariff, classification or regulation
To the extent that any treaty or statute of the United States, regulatory statute of this state or tariff, classification or regulation filed or issued ...
62A.7-104 Negotiable and non-negotiable warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title
(1) A warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title is negotiable (a) if by its terms the goods are to be delivered ...
62A.7-105 Construction against negative implication
The omission from either Part 2 or Part 3 of this Article of a provision corresponding to a provision made in the other Part does ...
62A.7-201 Who may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under government bond
(1) A warehouse receipt may be issued by any warehouseman. (2) Where goods including distilled spirits and agricultural commodities are stored under a statute requiring ...
62A.7-202 Form of warehouse receipt; essential terms; optional terms
(1) A warehouse receipt need not be in any particular form. (2) Unless a warehouse receipt embodies within its written, printed, or electronic terms each ...
62A.7-203 Liability for non-receipt or misdescription
A party to or purchaser for value in good faith of a document of title other than a bill of lading relying in either case ...
62A.7-204 Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouseman's liability
(1) A warehouseman is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard ...
62A.7-205 Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases
A buyer in the ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouseman who is also in the business of buying ...
62A.7-206 Termination of storage at warehouseman's option
(1) A warehouseman may on notifying the person on whose account the goods are held and any other person known to claim an interest in ...
62A.7-207 Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods
(1) Unless the warehouse receipt otherwise provides, a warehouseman must keep separate the goods covered by each receipt so as to permit at all times ...
62A.7-208 Altered warehouse receipts
Where a blank in a negotiable warehouse receipt has been filled in without authority, a purchaser for value and without notice of the want of ...
62A.7-209 Lien of warehouseman
(1) A warehouseman has a lien against the bailor on the goods covered by a warehouse receipt or on the proceeds thereof in his possession ...
62A.7-210 Enforcement of warehouseman's lien
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a warehouseman's lien may be enforced by public or private sale of the goods in bloc or in ...
62A.7-301 Liability for non-receipt or misdescription; "said to contain"; "shipper's load and count"; improper handling
(1) A consignee of a non-negotiable bill who has given value in good faith or a holder to whom a negotiable bill has been duly ...
62A.7-302 Through bills of lading and similar documents
(1) The issuer of a through bill of lading or other document embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by persons acting as its ...
62A.7-303 Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions
(1) Unless the bill of lading otherwise provides, the carrier may deliver the goods to a person or destination other than that stated in the ...
62A.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 ...
62A.7-305 Destination bills
(1) Instead of issuing a bill of lading to the consignor at the place of shipment a carrier may at the request of the consignor ...
62A.7-306 Altered bills of lading
An unauthorized alteration or filling in of a blank in a bill of lading leaves the bill enforceable according to its original tenor.[1965 ex.s. c ...
62A.7-307 Lien of carrier
(1) A carrier has a lien on the goods covered by a bill of lading for charges subsequent to the date of its receipt of ...
62A.7-308 Enforcement of carrier's lien
(1) A carrier's lien may be enforced by public or private sale of the goods, in bloc or in parcels, at any time or place ...
62A.7-309 Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability
Save as otherwise provided in RCW 81.29.010 and 81.29.020 (1) A carrier who issues a bill of lading whether negotiable or non-negotiable must exercise the ...
62A.7-401 Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer
The obligations imposed by this Article on an issuer apply to a document of title regardless of the fact that (a) the document may not ...
62A.7-402 Duplicate receipt or bill; overissue
Neither a duplicate nor any other document of title purporting to cover goods already represented by an outstanding document of the same issuer confers any ...
62A.7-403 Obligation of warehouseman or carrier to deliver; excuse
(1) The bailee must deliver the goods to a person entitled under the document who complies with subsections (2) and (3), unless and to the ...
62A.7-404 No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to receipt or bill
A bailee who in good faith including observance of reasonable commercial standards has received goods and delivered or otherwise disposed of them according to the ...
62A.7-501 Form of negotiation and requirements of "due negotiation"
(1) A negotiable document of title running to the order of a named person is negotiated by his indorsement and delivery. After his indorsement in ...
62A.7-502 Rights acquired by due negotiation
(1) Subject to the following section and to the provisions of RCW 62A.7-205 on fungible goods, a holder to whom a negotiable document of title ...
62A.7-503 Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases
(1) A document of title confers no right in goods against a person who before issuance of the document had a legal interest or a ...
62A.7-504 Rights acquired in the absence of due negotiation; effect of diversion; seller's stoppage of delivery
(1) A transferee of a document, whether negotiable or non-negotiable, to whom the document has been delivered but not duly negotiated, acquires the title and ...
62A.7-505 Indorser not a guarantor for other parties
The indorsement of a document of title issued by a bailee does not make the indorser liable for any default by the bailee or by ...
62A.7-506 Delivery without indorsement: Right to compel indorsement
The transferee of a negotiable document of title has a specifically enforceable right to have his transferor supply any necessary indorsement but the transfer becomes ...
62A.7-507 Warranties on negotiation or transfer of receipt or bill
Where a person negotiates or transfers a document of title for value otherwise than as a mere intermediary under the next following section, then unless ...
62A.7-508 Warranties of collecting bank as to documents
A collecting bank or other intermediary known to be entrusted with documents on behalf of another or with collection of a draft or other claim ...
62A.7-509 Receipt or bill: When adequate compliance with commercial contract
The question whether a document is adequate to fulfill the obligations of a contract for sale or the conditions of a credit is governed by ...
62A.7-601 Lost and missing documents
(1) If a document has been lost, stolen or destroyed, a court may order delivery of the goods or issuance of a substitute document and ...
62A.7-602 Attachment of goods covered by a negotiable document
Except where the document was originally issued upon delivery of the goods by a person who had no power to dispose of them, no lien ...
62A.7-603 Conflicting claims; interpleader
If more than one person claims title or possession of the goods, the bailee is excused from delivery until he has had a reasonable time ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009