Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 47 > Chapter 7 > Article 1 - General

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
• 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 that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
• 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. See Arizona Laws 47-7102
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Arizona Laws 47-7102