Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 15 > Article 8 - General Provisions

• bailee: means a person who, by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title, acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• carrier: means a person who issues a bill of lading. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• delivery order: means a record that contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person who, in the ordinary course of business, issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• issuer: includes a 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, even if the issuer did not receive the goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in another respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Alaska Statutes 45.07.112