2014 Virginia Code
Title 8.7 - Commercial Code - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title
§ 8.7-104. Negotiable and nonnegotiable documents
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a document is negotiable:
(a) if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person; or
(b) where recognized in overseas trade, if it runs to a named person or assigns.
(2) A document other than one described in subsection 1 is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading in which it is stated that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.
(3) A document is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.
Code 1950, ยงยง 61-7, 61-8; 1964, c. 219; 2004, c. 200.
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