Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102 – Definitions and index of definitions
1. In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
- 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 Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
- Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
- 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 Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
- Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
- 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 Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
- Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Nevada Revised Statutes 104.7102
(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 whom 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) ’Goods’ means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.
(g) ’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. The term 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 any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer’s instructions.
(h) ’Person entitled under the document’ means the holder, in the case of a negotiable document of title, or the person to whom 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.
(i) ’Shipper’ means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier.
(j) ’Warehouse’ means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.
2. Definitions in other Articles applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:
(a) ’Contract for sale,’ NRS 104.2106.
(b) ’Lessee in the ordinary course of business,’ NRS 104A.2103.
(c) ’Receipt’ of goods, NRS 104.2103.
3. In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.