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Fla. Stat. § 677.102 (2025)
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677.102 Definitions and index of definitions.—
(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 of storage or transportation.
(h) “Issuer” means a bailee who issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person who 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, notwithstanding that the issuer received no goods or that the goods were misdescribed or that in any other respect the agent or employee violated his or her 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) “Shipper” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.
(k) “Warehouse” means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.
(2) Definitions in other chapters applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:
“Contract for sale,” s. 672.106.
“Lessee in ordinary course of business,” s. 680.1031.
“Receipt” of goods, s. 672.103.
(3) In addition, chapter 671 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.
Note.—s. 7-102, U.C.C.; supersedes s. 678.54.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1980–2021 · leading case: Richwagen v. Lilienthal, 386 So. 2d 247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980).
Richwagen v. Lilienthal, 386 So. 2d 247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980). “That term is defined in Section 677.102(1)(h), Florida Statutes (1975), as "a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.”
Buy & Sell Fitness, LLC v. Kervin Villalba (Fla. 3d DCA 2021). “” § 677.102(1)(c), Fla. Stat. Applying that definition in the instant context, it is equally plausible that although the equipment was ultimately destined for exportation, Buy and Sell agreed to deliver the goods to Surcargo at its Miami-Dade address.”
— 677.102(1)(c) — 1 case
Buy & Sell Fitness, LLC v. Kervin Villalba (Fla. 3d DCA 2021). “” § 677.102(1)(c), Fla. Stat. Applying that definition in the instant context, it is equally plausible that although the equipment was ultimately destined for exportation, Buy and Sell agreed to deliver the goods to Surcargo at its Miami-Dade address.”
— 677.102(1)(f) — 1 case
Richwagen v. Lilienthal, 386 So. 2d 247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980). “That term is defined in Section 677.102(1)(h), Florida Statutes (1975), as "a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.”
— 677.102(1)(h) — 1 case
Richwagen v. Lilienthal, 386 So. 2d 247 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980). “That term is defined in Section 677.102(1)(h), Florida Statutes (1975), as "a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.”
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