ORS 77.1020
Definitions and index of definitions


(1)

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)

“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.

(b)

“Carrier” means a person that issues a bill of lading.

(c)

“Consignee” means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery.

(d)

“Consignor” means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment.

(e)

“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.

(f)

“Goods” means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.

(g)

“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.

(h)

“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.

(i)

“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.

(j)

“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.

(k)

“Shipper” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.

(L)

“Warehouse” means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.

(2)

Definitions in other chapters applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:

(a)

“Contract for sale,” as defined in ORS 72.1060 (Definitions: “contract”).

(b)

“Lessee in the ordinary course of business,” as defined in ORS 72A.1030 (Definitions and index of definitions).

(c)

“Receipt” of goods, as defined in ORS 72.1030 (Definitions and index of definitions).

(3)

In addition, ORS chapter 71 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter. [1961 c.726 §77.1020 (Definitions and index of definitions); 2009 c.181 §50]

Source: Section 77.1020 — Definitions and index of definitions, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors077.­html.

77.1010
Short title
77.1020
Definitions and index of definitions
77.1030
Relation of chapter to treaty or statute
77.1040
Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title
77.1050
Reissuance in alternative medium
77.1060
Control of electronic document of title
77.2010
Person that may issue a warehouse receipt
77.2020
Form of warehouse receipt
77.2030
Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription
77.2040
Duty of care
77.2050
Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases
77.2060
Termination of storage at warehouse’s option
77.2070
Goods must be kept separate
77.2080
Altered warehouse receipts
77.2090
Lien of warehouse
77.2100
Enforcement of warehouse’s lien
77.3010
Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription
77.3020
Through bills of lading and similar documents of title
77.3030
Diversion
77.3040
Bills of lading in a set
77.3050
Destination bills
77.3060
Altered bills of lading
77.3070
Lien of carrier
77.3080
Enforcement of carrier’s lien
77.3090
Duty of care
77.4010
Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer
77.4020
Duplicate document of title
77.4030
Obligation of bailee to deliver
77.4040
No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to document of title
77.5010
Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation
77.5020
Rights acquired by due negotiation
77.5030
Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases
77.5040
Rights acquired in the absence of due negotiation
77.5050
Indorser not a guarantor for other parties
77.5060
Delivery without indorsement
77.5070
Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title
77.5080
Warranties of collecting bank as to documents
77.5090
Adequate compliance with commercial contract
77.6010
Lost, stolen or destroyed documents of title
77.6020
Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title
77.6030
Conflicting claims
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