2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 71 - General
Section 7102 - Definitions and index of definitions

     § 7102.  Definitions and index of definitions.
        (a)  Division 7 definitions.--The following words and phrases
     when used in this division shall have, unless the context
     clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this
     subsection:
        "Bailee."  A person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of
     lading or other document of title acknowledges possession of
     goods and contracts to deliver them.
        "Carrier."  A person that issues a bill of lading.
        "Consignee."  A person named in a bill of lading to which or
     to whose order the bill promises delivery.
        "Consignor."  A person named in a bill of lading as the
     person from which the goods have been received for shipment.
        "Delivery order."  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.
        "Goods."  All things that are treated as movable for the
     purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.
        "Issuer."  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.
        "Person entitled under the document."  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.
        "Shipper."  A person that enters into a contract of
     transportation with a carrier.
        "Sign."  With present intent to authenticate or adopt a
     record:
            (1)  to execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
            (2)  to attach to or logically associate with the record
        an electronic sound, symbol or process.
        "Warehouse."  A person engaged in the business of storing
     goods for hire.
        (b)  Definitions in other divisions.--Definitions in other
     divisions applying to this division and the sections in which
     they appear are:
            (1)  "Contract for sale."  Section 2106 (relating to
        definitions: "contract"; "agreement"; "contract for sale";
        "sale"; "present sale"; "conforming" to contract;
        "termination"; "cancellation").
            (2)  "Lessee in ordinary course of business."  Section
        2A103 (relating to definitions and index of definitions).
            (3)  "Receipt."  Section 2103 (relating to definitions
        and index of definitions).
        (c)  Division 1 definitions and principles.--In addition,
     Division 1 (relating to general provisions) contains general
     definitions and principles of construction and interpretation
     applicable throughout this division.

        Cross References.  Section 7102 is referred to in sections
     2103, 9102 of this title.