§12A-7-102.

§12A-7-102.
   
   (1) In this article, 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 warehouseman, 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 the general
   definitions in Article 1 (Section 1-201).
   
   (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 his instructions.
   
   (h) "Warehouseman" is a person engaged in the business of storing
   goods for hire.
   
   (2) Other definitions applying to this article or to specified parts
   thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:
   
   "Duly negotiate". Section 7-501.
   
   "Person entitled under the document". Section 7-403(4).
   
   (3) Definitions in other articles applying to this article and the
   sections in which they appear are:
   
   "Contract for sale". Section 2-106.
   
   "Overseas". Section 2-323.
   
   "Receipt" of goods. Section 2-103.
   
   (4) In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles
   of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.