A duplicate or any other document of title purporting to cover goods already represented by an outstanding document of the same issuer does not confer any right in the goods, except as provided in the case of tangible bills of lading in a set of parts, overissue of documents for fungible goods, substitutes for lost, stolen, or destroyed documents, or substitute documents issued pursuant to Section 7.105. The issuer is liable for damages caused by its overissue or failure to identify a duplicate document by a conspicuous notation.
Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 7.402
DUPLICATE DOCUMENT OF TITLE; OVERISSUE
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 1–12 (616 sections).
Acts 1967, 60th Leg., p. 2343, ch. 785, Sec. 1, eff
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.