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PUBLIC LAW 88-243-DEC. 30, 1963

(d) the direct oblipition of the issuer to liold or deliver the tfoods according to the terms of the document free of any defense or chiini 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 indorser 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 consituted 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 nuide to a third person. § 28:7—503. Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases (1) A document of title confers no right in goods against a person who before issuance of the document had a legal interest or a perfected security interest in them and who neither (a) delivered or entrusted them or any document of title covering them to the bailor or his nominee with actual or apparent authority to ship, store or sell or with power to obtain delivery under this article (section 28:7—403) or with power of disposition under this subtitle (sections 28:2—403 and 28:9—307) or other statute or rule of law; nor (b) acquiesced in the procurement by the bailor or his nominee of any document of title. (2) Title to goods based upon an unaccepted delivery order is subject to the rights of anyone to whom a negotiable warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering the goods has been duly negotiated. Such a title may be defeated under the next section to the same extent as the rights of the issuer or a transferee from the issuer. (3) Title to goods based upon a bill of lading issued to a (freight forwarder is subject to the rights of anyone to whom a bill issued by the freight forwarder is duly negotiated; but delivery by the carrier in accordance -with, part 4 of this article pursuant to its own bill of lading discharges the carrier's obligation to deliver. §28:7—504. Rights acquired in the absence of due negotiation; effect of diversion; seller's stoppage of delivery (1) A transferee of a document, whether negotiable or nonnegotiable, to whom the document has been delivered but not duly negotiated, acquires the title and rights which his transferor had or had actual authority to convey. (2) I n the case of a non-negotiable document, until but not after the bailee receives notification of the transfer, the rights of the transferee may be defeated (a) by those creditors of the transferor who could treat the sale as void under section 28:2—402; or (b) by a buyer from the transferor in ordinary course of business if the bailee has delivered the goods to the buyer or received notification of his rights; or (c) as against the bailee by good faith dealings of the bailee with the transferor. (3) A diversion or other change of shipping instructions by the consignor in a non-negotiable bill of lading which causes the bailee not to deliver to the consignee defeats the consignee's title to the goods if they have been delivered to a buyer in ordinary course of business and in any event defeats the consignee's rights against the bailee.

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