25-7-402. Duplicate document of title; overissue.
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 G.S. 25-7-105. The issuer is liable for damages caused by its overissue or failure to identify a duplicate document by a conspicuous notation. (1917, c. 37, s. 6; 1919, c. 65, s. 5; C.S., ss. 287, 4047; 1965, c. 700, s. 1; 2006-112, s. 25.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 25 - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 7 - Documents of Title.
§ 25-7-102 - Definitions and index of definitions.
§ 25-7-103 - Relation of Article to treaty or statute.
§ 25-7-104 - Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title.
§ 25-7-105 - Reissuance in alternative medium.
§ 25-7-106 - Control of electronic document of title.
§ 25-7-201 - Person that may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under bond.
§ 25-7-202 - Form of warehouse receipt; effect of omission.
§ 25-7-203 - Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription.
§ 25-7-204 - Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse's liability.
§ 25-7-205 - Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases.
§ 25-7-206 - Termination of storage at warehouse's option.
§ 25-7-207 - Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods.
§ 25-7-208 - Altered warehouse receipts.
§ 25-7-209 - Lien of warehouse.
§ 25-7-210 - Enforcement of warehouse's lien.
§ 25-7-302 - Through bills of lading and similar documents of title.
§ 25-7-303 - Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions.
§ 25-7-304 - Tangible bills of lading in a set.
§ 25-7-305 - Destination bills.
§ 25-7-306 - Altered bills of lading.
§ 25-7-308 - Enforcement of carrier's lien.
§ 25-7-309 - Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability.
§ 25-7-401 - Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.
§ 25-7-402 - Duplicate document of title; overissue.
§ 25-7-403 - Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse.
§ 25-7-404 - No liability for good-faith delivery pursuant to document of title.
§ 25-7-501 - Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation.
§ 25-7-502 - Rights acquired by due negotiation.
§ 25-7-503 - Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases.
§ 25-7-505 - Indorser not guarantor for other parties.
§ 25-7-506 - Delivery without indorsement; right to compel indorsement.
§ 25-7-507 - Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title.
§ 25-7-508 - Warranties of collecting bank as to documents of title.
§ 25-7-509 - Adequate compliance with commercial contract.
§ 25-7-601 - Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title.
§ 25-7-602 - Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title.