2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 74 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations
Section 7403 - Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse

     § 7403.  Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse.
        (a)  Delivery.--A bailee shall deliver the goods to a person
     entitled under a document of title if the person complies with
     subsections (b) and (c) unless and to the extent that the bailee
     establishes any of the following:
            (1)  delivery of the goods to a person whose receipt was
        rightful as against the claimant;
            (2)  damage to or delay, loss or destruction of the goods
        for which the bailee is not liable;
            (3)  previous sale or other disposition of the goods in
        lawful enforcement of a lien or on a warehouse's lawful
        termination of storage;
            (4)  the exercise by a seller of its right to stop
        delivery pursuant to section 2705 (relating to stoppage by
        seller of delivery in transit or otherwise) or by a lessor of
        its right to stop delivery pursuant to section 2A526
        (relating to lessor's stoppage of delivery in transit or
        otherwise);
            (5)  a diversion, reconsignment or other disposition
        pursuant to section 7303 (relating to diversion;
        reconsignment; change of instructions);
            (6)  release, satisfaction or any other personal defense
        against the claimant; or
            (7)  any other lawful excuse.
        (b)  Satisfaction of bailee's lien.--A person claiming goods
     covered by a document of title shall satisfy the bailee's lien
     if the bailee so requests or the bailee is prohibited by law
     from delivering the goods until the charges are paid.
        (c)  Document.--Unless a person claiming the goods is a
     person against which the document of title does not confer a
     right under section 7503(a) (relating to document of title to
     goods defeated in certain cases):
            (1)  the person claiming under a document shall surrender
        possession or control of any outstanding negotiable document
        covering the goods for cancellation or indication of partial
        deliveries; and
            (2)  the bailee shall cancel the document or
        conspicuously indicate in the document the partial delivery
        or the bailee liable to any person to which the document is
        duly negotiated.

        Cross References.  Section 7403 is referred to in sections
     7202, 7209, 7503 of this title.