2006 New York Code - Definitions And Index Of Definitions.

 
  Section 7--102. Definitions and Index of Definitions.
    (1) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:
         (a) "Bailee" means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of
             lading  or other document of title acknowledges possession of
             goods and contracts to deliver them.
         (b) "Consignee" means the person named in a bill to  whom  or  to
             whose order the bill promises delivery.
         (c) "Consignor"  means  the  person named in a bill as the person
             from whom the goods have been received for shipment.
         (d) "Delivery order" means  a  written  order  to  deliver  goods
             directed  to  a  warehouseman, carrier or other person who in
             the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts  or
             bills of lading.
         (e) "Document"  means document of title as defined in the general
             definitions in Article 1 (Section 1--201).
         (f) "Goods" means all things which are treated as movable for the
             purposes of a contract of storage or transportation.
         (g) "Issuer" means a bailee who issues a document except that  in
             relation  to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person
             who orders the possessor of goods to deliver. Issuer includes
             any person for whom an agent or employee purports to  act  in
             issuing  a  document  if  the  agent  or employee has real or
             apparent authority to issue documents,  notwithstanding  that
             the   issuer  received  no  goods  or  that  the  goods  were
             misdescribed or that  in  any  other  respect  the  agent  or
             employee violated his instructions.
         (h) "Warehouseman" is a person engaged in the business of storing
             goods for hire.
    (2)  Other  definitions applying to this Article or to specified Parts
  thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:
 
       "Duly negotiate".                     Section 7--501.
       "Person entitled under the document". Section 7--403 (4).
 
    (3) Definitions in other Articles applying to  this  Article  and  the
  sections in which they appear are:
 
       "Contract for sale".                  Section 2--106.
       "Overseas".                           Section 2--323.
       "Receipt" of goods.                   Section 2--103.
 
    (4)  In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles
  of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.