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§12A-7-502.
§12A-7-502.
(1) Subject to the following section and to the provisions of Section
7-205 on fungible goods, a holder to whom a negotiable document of
title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby:
(a) title to the document;
(b) title to the goods;
(c) all rights accruing under the law of agency or estoppel, including
rights to goods delivered to the bailee after the document was issued;
and
(d) the direct obligation of the issuer to hold or deliver the goods
according to the terms of the document free of any defense or claim by
him except those arising under the terms of the document or under this
article. In the case of a delivery order the bailee's obligation
accrues only upon acceptance and the obligation acquired by the holder
is that the issuer and any endorser will procure the acceptance of the
bailee.
(2) Subject to the following section, title and rights so acquired are
not defeated by any stoppage of the goods represented by the document
or by surrender of such goods by the bailee, and are not impaired even
though the negotiation or any prior negotiation constituted a breach
of duty or even though any person has been deprived of possession of
the document by misrepresentation, fraud, accident, mistake, duress,
loss, theft or conversion, or even though a previous sale or other
transfer of the goods or document has been made to a third person.
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