57A-7-102. Definitions and index of definitions.
(a) In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)"Bailee" means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them.
(2)"Carrier" means a person that issues a bill of lading.
(3)"Consignee" means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery.
(4)"Consignor" means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment.
(5)"Delivery order" means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading.
(6)"Good faith" means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.
(7)"Goods" means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.
(8)"Issuer" means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. The term includes a person for which an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, even if the issuer did not receive any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions.
(9)"Person entitled under the document" means the holder, in the case of a negotiable document of title, or the person to which delivery of the goods is to be made by the terms of, or pursuant to instructions in a record under, a nonnegotiable document of title.
(10)"Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(11)"Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
(A)To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
(B)To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process.
(12)"Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.
(13)"Warehouse" means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.
(b) Definitions in other chapters applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:
(1)"Contract for sale", §57A-2-106.
(2)"Lessee in ordinary course of business", §57A-2A-103.
(3)"Receipt" of goods, §57A-2-103.
(c) In addition, chapter 57A-1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.
Source: SL 2009, ch 254, §7-102.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 57A - Uniform Commercial Code
Chapter 07 - Documents Of Title
Section 57A-7-101 - Short title.
Section 57A-7-102 - Definitions and index of definitions.
Section 57A-7-103 - Relation of chapter to treaty or statute.
Section 57A-7-104 - Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title.
Section 57A-7-105 - Reissuance in alternative medium.
Section 57A-7-106 - Control of electronic document of title.
Section 57A-7-201 - Person that may issue a warehouse receipt--Storage under bond.
Section 57A-7-202 - Form of warehouse receipt--Effect of omission.
Section 57A-7-203 - Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription.
Section 57A-7-204 - Duty of care--Contractual limitation of warehouse's liability.
Section 57A-7-205 - Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases.
Section 57A-7-206 - Termination of storage at warehouse's option.
Section 57A-7-207 - Goods to be kept separate--Fungible goods.
Section 57A-7-208 - Altered warehouse receipts.
Section 57A-7-209 - Lien of warehouse.
Section 57A-7-210 - Enforcement of warehouse's lien.
Section 57A-7-302 - Through bills of lading and similar documents of title.
Section 57A-7-303 - Diversion--Reconsignment--Change of instructions.
Section 57A-7-304 - Tangible bills of lading in a set.
Section 57A-7-305 - Destination bills.
Section 57A-7-306 - Altered bills of lading.
Section 57A-7-307 - Lien of carrier.
Section 57A-7-308 - Enforcement of carrier's lien.
Section 57A-7-309 - Duty of care--Contractual limitation of carrier's liability.
Section 57A-7-401 - Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.
Section 57A-7-402 - Duplicate document of title--Overissue.
Section 57A-7-403 - Obligation of bailee to deliver--Excuse.
Section 57A-7-404 - No liability for good-faith delivery pursuant to document of title.
Section 57A-7-501 - Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation.
Section 57A-7-502 - Rights acquired by due negotiation.
Section 57A-7-503 - Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases.
Section 57A-7-505 - Indorser not guarantor for other parties.
Section 57A-7-506 - Delivery without indorsement--Right to compel indorsement.
Section 57A-7-507 - Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title.
Section 57A-7-508 - Warranties of collecting bank as to documents of title.
Section 57A-7-509 - Adequate compliance with commercial contract.
Section 57A-7-601 - Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title.
Section 57A-7-602 - Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title.
Section 57A-7-603 - Conflicting claims--Interpleader.