RS 10:7-104

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RS 10:7-104

§7-104. Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title

(a)Except as otherwise provided in Subsection

(c)of this Section, a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person.

(b)A document of title other than one described in Subsection

(a)of this Section is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.

(c)A document of title is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.

Added by Acts 1978, No. 164, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Acts 2009, No. 207, §3, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.