2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 73 - Bills of Lading: Special Provisions
Section 7304 - Tangible bills of lading in a set

     § 7304.  Tangible bills of lading in a set.
        (a)  Prohibition.--Except as customary in international
     transportation, a tangible bill of lading may not be issued in a
     set of parts. The issuer is liable for damages caused by
     violation of this subsection.
        (b)  Single bill.--If a tangible bill of lading is lawfully
     issued in a set of parts, each of which contains an
     identification code and is expressed to be valid only if the
     goods have not been delivered against any other part, the whole
     of the parts constitutes one bill.
        (c)  Priority of title.--If a tangible negotiable bill of
     lading is lawfully issued in a set of parts and different parts
     are negotiated to different persons, the title of the holder to
     which the first due negotiation is made prevails as to both the
     document of title and the goods even if any later holder may
     have received the goods from the carrier in good faith and
     discharged the carrier's obligation by surrendering its part.
        (d)  Liability.--A person that negotiates or transfers a
     single part of a tangible bill of lading issued in a set is
     liable to holders of that part as if it were the whole set.
        (e)  Bailee.--The bailee shall deliver in accordance with
     this chapter against the first presented part of a tangible bill
     of lading lawfully issued in a set. Delivery in this manner
     discharges the bailee's obligation on the whole bill.