§ 34.1-7-102 — Definitions and index of definitions

(a) In this article, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i) "Bailee" means a person that by a warehouse
receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges
possession of goods and contracts to deliver them;
(ii) "Carrier" means a person that issues a bill of
lading;
(iii) "Consignee" means a person named in a bill of
lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery;
(iv) "Consignor" means a person named in a bill of
lading as the person from which the goods have been received for
shipment;
(v) "Delivery order" means 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;
(vi) Reserved;
(vii) "Goods" means all things that are treated as
movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or
transportation;
(viii) "Issuer" means 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;
(ix) "Person entitled under the document" means 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;
(x) Reserved;
(xi) "Sign" means, with present intent to
authenticate or adopt a record:
(A) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
(B) To attach to or logically associate with the
record an electronic sound, symbol, or process.
(xii) "Shipper" means a person that enters into a
contract of transportation with a carrier;
(xiii) "Warehouse" means a person engaged in the
business of storing goods for hire.
(b) Definitions in other articles applying to this article
and the sections in which they appear are:
(i) "Contract for sale," W.S. 34.1-2-106;
(ii) "Lessee in the ordinary course of business,"
W.S. 34.1-2.A-103;
(iii) "Receipt" of goods, W.S. 34.1-2-103.
(c) In addition, article 1 of this title contains general
definitions and principles of construction and interpretation
applicable throughout this article.