§ 554.5102 — Definitions

Iowa § 554.5102

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XIII: COMMERCE
• Ch. 554: UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE

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1. In this Article unless the context otherwise requires:
a. “Adviser” means a person who, at the request of the issuer, a confirmer, or another
adviser, notifies or requests another adviser to notify the beneficiary that a letter of credit has
been issued, confirmed, or amended.
b. “Applicant” means a person at whose request or for whose account a letter of credit is
issued. The term includes a person who requests an issuer to issue a letter of credit on behalf
of another if the person making the request undertakes an obligation to reimburse the issuer.
c. “Beneficiary” means a person who under the terms of a letter of credit is entitled to have
its complying presentation honored. The term includes a person to whom drawing rights
have been transferred under a transferable letter of credit.
d. “Confirmer” means a nominated person who undertakes, at the request or with the
consent of the issuer, to honor a presentation under a letter of credit issued by another.
e. “Dishonor”ofaletterofcreditmeansfailuretimelytohonorortotakeaninterimaction,
such as acceptance of a draft, that may be required by the letter of credit.
f. “Document” means a draft or other demand, document of title, investment security,
certificate, invoice, or other record, statement, or representation of fact, law, right, or opinion
which is presented in a written or other medium permitted by the letter of credit or, unless
prohibited by the letter of credit, by the standard practice referred to in section 554.5108,
subsection 5, and which is capable of being examined for compliance with the terms and
conditions of the letter of credit. A document may not be oral.
g. “Good faith” means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned.
h. “Honor” of a letter of credit means performance of the issuer’s undertaking in the letter
of credit to pay or deliver an item of value. Unless the letter of credit otherwise provides,
“honor” occurs
(1) upon payment,
(2) if the letter of credit provides for acceptance, upon acceptance of a draft and, at
maturity, its payment, or

(3) if the letter of credit provides for incurring a deferred obligation, upon incurring the
obligation and, at maturity, its performance.
i. “Issuer” means a bank or other person that issues a letter of credit, but does not include
an individual who makes an engagement for personal, family, or household purposes.
j. “Letter of credit” means a definite undertaking that satisfies the requirements of section
554.5104 by an issuer to a beneficiary at the request or for the account of an applicant or,
in the case of a financial institution, to itself or for its own account, to honor a documentary
presentation by payment or delivery of an item of value.
k. “Nominated person” means a person whom the issuer designates or authorizes to
pay, accept, negotiate, or otherwise give value under a letter of credit and undertakes by
agreement or custom and practice to reimburse.
l. “Presentation”meansdeliveryofadocumenttoanissuerornominatedpersonforhonor
or giving of value under a letter of credit.
m. “Presenter” means a person making a presentation as or on behalf of a beneficiary or
nominated person.
n. “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium, or that is stored in
an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
o. “Successor of a beneficiary” means a person who succeeds to substantially all of
the rights of a beneficiary by operation of law, including a corporation with or into which
the beneficiary has been merged or consolidated, an administrator, executor, personal
representative, trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, liquidator, and receiver.
2. Definitions in other Articles applying to this Article and the sections in which they
appear are:
a. “Accept” or “Acceptance” ................. Section 554.3409
b. “Value”............................................... Sections554.3303,554.4211
3. Article 1 contains certain additional general definitions and principles of construction
and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.

Legislative History

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §554.5102]