Wis. Stat. § 407.102
Definitions and index of definitions
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Current — January 1, 2009
As of January 1, 2003
(1) In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Bailee" means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. (b) "Consignee" means the person named in a bill to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery. (c) "Consignor" means the person named in a bill as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment. (d) "Delivery order" means a written order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse keeper, carrier or other person who in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. (e) "Document" means document of title as defined in s. 401.201 . (f) "Goods" means all things which are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation. (g) "Issuer" means a bailee who issues a document except that in relation to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person who orders the possessor of goods to deliver. Issuer includes any person for whom an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents notwithstanding that the issuer received no goods or that the goods were misdescribed or that in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions. (h) "Warehouse keeper" is a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.
(1) In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "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. (b) "Carrier" means a person that issues a bill of lading. (c) "Consignee" means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. (d) "Consignor" means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. (e) "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. (f) "Good faith" means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. (g) "Goods" means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. (h) "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. (i) "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. (j) "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. (k) "Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. (L) "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, any of the following: 1. To execute or adopt a tangible symbol. 2. To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process. (m) "Warehouse" means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.
(2) Other definitions applying to this chapter or to specified sections thereof, and the sections in which they appear are: (a) "Duly negotiate" — s. 407.501 . (b) "Person entitled under the document" — s. 407.403 (4) .
(2) Definitions in other chapters applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are: (a) "Contract for sale," s. 402.106 . (b) "Lessee in ordinary course of business," s. 411.103 . (c) "Receipt" of goods, s. 402.103 .
(3) Definitions in other chapters applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:
(a) "Contract for sale" — s. 402.106 .
(am) "Lessor" — s. 411.103 (1) (p) .
(b) "Overseas" — s. 402.323 .
(c) "Receipt" of goods — s. 402.103 .
(3) In addition, ch. 401 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.
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