Massachusetts General Laws
Article 7 - Documents of Title
Section 7-402 - Duplicate Document of Title; Overissue

Section 7–402. A duplicate or any other document of title purporting to cover goods already represented by an outstanding document of the same issuer does not confer any right in the goods, except as provided in the case of tangible bills of lading in a set of parts, overissue of documents for fungible goods, substitutes for lost, stolen or destroyed documents or substitute documents issued pursuant to section 7–105. The issuer is liable for damages caused by its overissue or failure to identify a duplicate document by a conspicuous notation.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part I - Administration of the Government

Title XV - Regulation of Trade

Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code

Article 7 - Documents of Title

Section 7-502 - Rights Acquired by Due Negotiation

Section 7-401 - Irregularities in Issue of Receipt or Bill or Conduct of Issuer

Section 7-402 - Duplicate Document of Title; Overissue

Section 7-403 - Obligation of Bailee to Deliver; Excuse

Section 7-309 - Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Carrier's Liability

Section 7-404 - No Liability for Good–faith Delivery Pursuant to Document of Title

Section 7-501 - Form of Negotiation and Requirements of Due Negotiation

Section 7-503 - Document of Title to Goods Defeated in Certain Cases

Section 7-509 - Adequate Compliance With Commercial Contract

Section 7-505 - Indorser Not Guarantor for Other Parties

Section 7-506 - Delivery Without Indorsement: Right to Compel Indorsement

Section 7-507 - Warranties on Negotiations or Delivery of Document of Title

Section 7-508 - Warranties of Collecting Bank as to Documents of Title

Section 7-601 - Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Documents of Title

Section 7-602 - Judicial Process Against Goods Covered by Negotiable Document of Title

Section 7-603 - Conflicting Claims; Interpleader

Section 7-308 - Enforcement of Carrier's Lien

Section 7-504 - Rights Acquired in Absence of Due Negotiation; Effect of Diversion; Stoppage of Delivery

Section 7-307 - Lien of Carrier

Section 7-210 - Enforcement of Warehouse's Lien

Section 7-305 - Destination Bills

Section 7-101 - Short Title

Section 7-306 - Altered Bills of Lading

Section 7-102 - Definitions and Index of Definitions

Section 7-103 - Relation of Article to Treaty or Statute

Section 7-104 - Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Document of Title

Section 7-105 - Reissuance in Alternative Medium

Section 7-201 - Person That May Issue a Warehouse Receipt; Storage Under Bond

Section 7-202 - Form of Warehouse Receipt; Effect of Omission

Section 7-203 - Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription

Section 7-204 - Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Warehouse's Liability

Section 7-106 - Control of Electronic Document of Title

Section 7-206 - Termination of Storage at Warehouse Option

Section 7-207 - Goods Must Be Kept Separate; Fungible Goods

Section 7-208 - Altered Warehouse Receipts

Section 7-209 - Lien of Warehouse

Section 7-301 - Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription; ''said to Contain''; ''shipper's Weight, Load and Count''; Improper Handling

Section 7-302 - Through Bills of Lading and Similar Documents of Title

Section 7-205 - Title Under Warehouse Receipt Defeated in Certain Cases

Section 7-303 - Diversion; Reconsignment; Change of Instructions

Section 7-304 - Tangible Bills of Lading in a Set