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Ala. Code § 7-7-102 (2026)

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(a) In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “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.

(2) A “carrier” means a person that issues a bill of lading.

(3) “Consignee” means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery.

(4) “Consignor” means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment.

(5) “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.

(6) “Good faith” means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned.

(7) “Goods” means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.

(8) “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.

(9) “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.

(10) [Reserved].

(11) [Reserved].

(12) “Shipper” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.

(13) “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:

(1) “Contract for sale,” Section 7-2-106.

(2) “Lessee in ordinary course,” Section 7-2A-103.

(3) “Receipt” of goods, Section 7-2-103.

(c) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.

(Prior version of this section added by Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811; repealed by Act 2004-315, p. 464, §1; current section added by Act 2004-315, p. 464, §1; Act 2023-492, §1.)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1990–2023 · leading case: Galactic Emp. Servs. v. Mcdorman, 880 So. 2d 434 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003).
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Galactic Emp. Servs. v. Mcdorman, 880 So. 2d 434 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003). “Code 1975, provides for a negligence cause of action against a warehouseman, which the defendant corporation in that case was, pursuant to § 7-7-102(1)(h), Ala.Code 1975. Similarly, in Southeastern Construction a fiduciary relationship was recognized to exist between the…”
Davis Constr. Co., LLC v. Merchants Transfer Co., Inc. (S.D. Ala. 2023). “§ 7-7-102(a)(13). A warehouse is a form of bailee.”
Windham Power Lifts, Inc. v. Dep't of Def., Air Force Directorate of Contracting & Manufacture (In re Windham Power Lifts, Inc.), 131 B.R. 181 (Bankr. M.D. Ala. 1990). · cites it 2× “Code § 7-7-102 (l)(h) (1975). Neither is the debtor a bailee, because the debtor is not a “person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them.”
— Ala. Code § 7-7-102(1)(h) — 1 case
Galactic Emp. Servs. v. Mcdorman, 880 So. 2d 434 (Ala. Civ. App. 2003). “Code 1975, provides for a negligence cause of action against a warehouseman, which the defendant corporation in that case was, pursuant to § 7-7-102(1)(h), Ala.Code 1975. Similarly, in Southeastern Construction a fiduciary relationship was recognized to exist between the…”
— Ala. Code § 7-7-102(a)(13) — 1 case
Davis Constr. Co., LLC v. Merchants Transfer Co., Inc. (S.D. Ala. 2023). “§ 7-7-102(a)(13). A warehouse is a form of bailee.”
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