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V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 4A-507 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 4A - Fund Transfers|Part 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 4A-507. Choice of law

 (a) The following rules apply unless the affected parties otherwise agree or subsection (c) applies: (1) The rights and obligations between the sender of a payment order and the receiving bank are governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which the receiving bank is located. (2) The rights and obligations between the beneficiary's bank and the beneficiary are governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which the beneficiary's bank is located. (3) The issue of when payment is made pursuant to a funds transfer by the originator to the beneficiary is governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which the beneficiary's bank is located. (b) If the parties described in each paragraph of subsection (a) have made an agreement selecting the law of a particular jurisdiction to govern rights and obligations between each other, the law of that jurisdiction governs those rights and obligations, whether or not the payment order or the funds transfer bears a reasonable relation to that jurisdiction. (c) A funds-transfer system rule may select the law of a particular jurisdiction to govern (i) rights and obligations between participating banks with respect to payment orders transmitted or processed through the system, or (ii) the rights and obligations of some or all parties to a funds transfer any part of which is carried out by means of the system. A choice of law made pursuant to clause (i) is binding on participating banks. A choice of law made pursuant to clause (ii) is binding on the originator, other sender, or a receiving bank having notice that the funds-transfer system might be used in the funds transfer and of the choice of law by the system when the originator, other sender, or receiving bank issued or accepted a payment order. The beneficiary of a funds transfer is bound by the choice of law if, when the funds transfer is initiated, the beneficiary has notice that the funds-transfer system might be used in the funds transfer and of the choice of law by the system. The law of a jurisdiction selected pursuant to this subsection may govern, whether or not that law bears a reasonable relation to the matter in issue. (d) In the event of inconsistency between an agreement under subsection (b) and a choice-of-law rule under subsection (c), the agreement under subsection (b) prevails. (e) If a funds transfer is made by use of more than one funds-transfer system and there is inconsistency between choice-of-law rules of the systems, the matter in issue is governed by the law of the selected jurisdiction that has the most significant relationship to the matter in issue.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-101 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 1 - General|§ 7-101. Short title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code-Documents of Title.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-102 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 1 - General|§ 7-102. Definitions and index of definitions

 (1) In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “Bailee” means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. (b) “Consignee” means the person named in a bill to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery. (c) “Consignor” means the person named in a bill as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment. (d) “Delivery order” means a written order to deliver goods directed to a warehouseman, carrier or other person who in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. (e) “Document” means document of title as defined in the general definitions in article 1 (§ 1–201). (f) “Goods” means all things which are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation. (g) “Issuer” means a bailee who issues a document except that in relation to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person who orders the possessor of goods to deliver. Issuer includes any 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, notwithstanding that the issuer received no goods or that the goods were misdescribed or that in any other respect the agent or employee violated his instructions. (h) “Warehouseman” is a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. (2) Other definitions applying to this article or to specified Parts thereof, and the sections in which they appear are: “Duly negotiate”. Section 7–501. “Person entitled under the document”. Section 7–403(4). (3) Definitions in other articles applying to this article and the sections in which they appear are: “Contract for sale”. Section 2–106. “Overseas”. Section 2–323. “Receipt” of goods. Section 2–103. (4) In addition article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-103 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 1 - General|§ 7-103. Relation of article to treaty, statute, tariff, classification or regulation

 To the extent that any treaty or statute of the United States, regulatory statute of this state or tariff, classification or regulation filed or issued pursuant thereto is applicable, the provisions of this Article are subject thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-104 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 1 - General|§ 7-104. Negotiable and non-negotiable warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title

 (1) A warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title is negotiable (a) if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person; or (b) where recognized in overseas trade, if it runs to a named person or assigns. (2) Any other document is non-negotiable. A bill of lading in which it is stated 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 a written order signed by the same or another named person.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-105 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 1 - General|§ 7-105. Construction against negative implication

 The omission from either part 2 or part 3 of this article of a provision corresponding to a provision made in the other part does not imply that a corresponding rule of law is not applicable.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-201 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-201. Who may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under government bond

 (1) A warehouse receipt may be issued by any warehouseman. (2) Where goods including distilled spirits and agricultural commodities are stored under a statute requiring a bond against withdrawal or a license for the issuance of receipts in the nature of warehouse receipts, a receipt issued for the goods has like effect as a warehouse receipt even though issued by a person who is the owner of the goods and is not a warehouseman.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-202 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-202. Form of warehouse receipt; essential terms; optional terms

 (1) A warehouse receipt need not be in any particular form. (2) Unless a warehouse receipt embodies within its written or printed terms each of the following, the warehouseman is liable for damages caused by the omission to a person injured thereby: (a) the location of the warehouse where the goods are stored; (b) the date of issue of the receipt; (c) the consecutive number of the receipt; (d) a statement whether the goods received will be delivered to the bearer, to a specified person, or to a specified person or his order; (e) the rate of storage and handling charges, except that where goods are stored under a field warehousing arrangement a statement of that fact is sufficient on a nonnegotiable receipt; (f) a description of the goods or of the packages containing them; (g) the signature of the warehouseman, which may be made by his authorized agent; (h) if the receipt is issued for goods of which the warehouseman is owner, either solely or jointly or in common with others, the fact of such ownership; and (i) a statement of the amount of advances made and of liabilities incurred for which the warehouseman claims a lien or security interest (§ 7–209). If the precise amount of such advances made or of such liabilities incurred is, at the time of the issue of the receipt, unknown to the warehouseman or to his agent who issues it, a statement of the fact that advances have been made or liabilities incurred and the purpose thereof is sufficient. (3) A warehouseman may insert in his receipt any other terms which are not contrary to the provisions of this title and do not impair his obligation of delivery (§ 7–403) or his duty of care (§ 7–204). Any contrary provisions shall be ineffective.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-203 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-203. Liability for non-receipt or misdescription

 A party to or purchaser for value in good faith of a document of title other than a bill of lading relying in either case upon the description therein of the goods may recover from the issuer damages caused by the non-receipt or misdescription of the goods, except to the extent that the document conspicuously indicates that the issuer does not know whether any part or all of the goods in fact were received or conform to the description, as where the description is in terms of marks or labels or kind, quantity or condition, or the receipt or description is qualified by “contents, condition and quality unknown”, “said to contain” or the like, if such indication be true, or the party or purchaser otherwise has notice.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-204 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-204. Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouseman's liability

 (1) A warehouseman is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful man would exercise under like circumstances but unless otherwise agreed he is not liable for damages which could not have been avoided by the exercise of such care. (2) Damages may be limited by a term in the warehouse receipt or storage agreement limiting the amount of liability in case of loss or damage, and setting forth a specific liability per article or item, or value per unit of weight, beyond which the warehouseman shall not be liable; Provided, however, That such liability may on written request of the bailor at the time of signing such storage agreement or within a reasonable time after receipt of the warehouse receipt be increased on part or all of the goods thereunder, in which event increased rates may be charged based on such increased valuation, but that no such increase shall be permitted contrary to a lawful limitation of liability contained in the warehouseman's tariff, if any. No such limitation is effective with respect to the warehouseman's liability for conversion to his own use. (3) Reasonable provisions as to the time and manner of presenting claims and instituting actions based on the bailment may be included in the warehouse receipt or tariff.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-205 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-205. Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases

 A buyer in the ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouseman who is also in the business of buying and selling such goods takes free of any claim under a warehouse receipt even though it has been duly negotiated.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-206 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-206. Termination of storage at warehouseman's option

 (1) A warehouseman may on notifying the person on whose account the goods are held and any other person known to claim an interest in the goods require payment of any charges and removal of the goods from the warehouse at the termination of the period of storage fixed by the document, or, if no period is fixed, within a stated period not less than thirty days after the notification. If the goods are not removed before the date specified in the notification, the warehouseman may sell them in accordance with the provisions of the section on enforcement of a warehouseman's lien (§ 7–210). (2) If a warehouseman in good faith believes that the goods are about to deteriorate or decline in value to less than the amount of his lien within the time prescribed in subsection (1) for notification, advertisement and sale, the warehouseman may specify in the notification any reasonable shorter time for removal of the goods and in case the goods are not removed, may sell them at public sale held not less than one week after a single advertisement or posting. (3) If as a result of a quality or condition of the goods of which the warehouseman had no notice at the time of deposit the goods are a hazard to other property or to the warehouse or to persons, the warehouseman may sell the goods at public or private sale without advertisement on reasonable notification to all persons known to claim an interest in the goods. If the warehouseman after a reasonable effort is unable to sell the goods he may dispose of them in any lawful manner and shall incur no liability by reason of such disposition. (4) The warehouseman must deliver the goods to any person entitled to them under this article upon due demand made at any time prior to sale or other disposition under this section. (5) The warehouseman may satisfy his lien from the proceeds of any sale or disposition under this section but must hold the balance for delivery on the demand of any person to whom he would have been bound to deliver the goods.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-207 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-207. Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods

 (1) Unless the warehouse receipt otherwise provides, a warehouseman must keep separate the goods covered by each receipt so as to permit at all times identification and delivery of those goods except that different lots of fungible goods may be commingled. (2) Fungible goods so commingled are owned in common by the persons entitled thereto and the warehouseman is severally liable to each owner for that owner's share. Where because of overissue a mass of fungible goods is insufficient to meet all the receipts which the warehouseman has issued against it, the persons entitled include all holders to whom overissued receipts have been duly negotiated.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-208 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-208. Altered warehouse receipts

 Where a blank in a negotiable warehouse receipt has been filled in without authority, a purchaser for value and without notice of the want of authority may treat the insertion as authorized. Any other unauthorized alteration leaves any receipt enforceable against the issuer according to its original tenor.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-209 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 2 - Warehouse Receipts: Special Provisions|§ 7-209. Lien of warehouseman

 (1) A warehouseman has a lien against the bailor on the goods covered by a warehouse receipt or on the proceeds thereof in his possession for charges for storage or transportation (including demurrage and terminal charges), insurance, labor, or charges present or future in relation to the goods, and for expenses necessary for preservation of the goods or reasonably incurred in their sale pursuant to law. If the person on whose account the goods are held is liable for like charges or expenses in relation to other goods whenever deposited and it is stated in the receipt that a lien is claimed for charges and expenses in relation to other goods, the warehouseman also has a lien against him for such charges and expenses whether or not the other goods have been delivered by the warehouseman. But against a person to whom a negotiable warehouse receipt is duly negotiated a warehouseman's lien is limited to charges in an amount or at a rate specified on the receipt or if no charges are so specified then to a reasonable charge for storage of the goods covered by the receipt subsequent to the date of the receipt. (2) The warehouseman may also reserve a security interest against the bailor for a maximum amount specified on the receipt for charges other than those specified in subsection (1), such as for money advanced and interest. Such a security interest is governed by the Article on Secured Transactions (Article 9). (3)  (a) A warehouseman's lien for charges and expenses under subsection (1) or a security interest under subsection (2) is also effective against any person who so entrusted the bailor with possession of the goods that a pledge of them by him to a good faith purchaser for value would have been valid but is not effective against a person as to whom the document confers no right in the goods covered by it under § 7–503. (b) A warehouseman's lien on household goods for charges and expenses in relation to the goods under subsection (1) is also effective against all persons if the depositor was the legal possessor of the goods at the time of deposit. “Household goods” means furniture furnishings and personal effects used by the depositor in a dwelling. (4) A warehouseman loses his lien on any goods which he voluntarily delivers or which he unjustifiably refuses to deliver.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-301 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 3 - Bills of Lading: Special Provisions|§ 7-301. Liability for non-receipt or misdescription; “said to contain”; “shipper's load and count”; improper handling

 (1) A consignee of a non-negotiable bill who has given value in good faith or a holder to whom a negotiable bill has been duly negotiated relying in either case upon the description therein of the goods, or upon the date therein shown, may recover from the issuer damages caused by the misdating of the bill or the non-receipt or misdescription of the goods, except to the extent that the document indicates that the issuer does not know whether any part or all of the goods in fact were received or conform to the description, as where the description is in terms of marks or labels or kind, quantity, or condition or the receipt or description is qualified by “contents or condition of contents of packages unknown”, “said to contain”, “shipper's weight, load and count” or the like, if such indication be true. (2) When goods are loaded by an issuer who is a common carrier, the issuer must count the packages of goods if package freight and ascertain the kind and quantity if bulk freight. In such cases “shipper's weight, load and count” or other words indicating that the description was made by the shipper are ineffective except as to freight concealed by packages. (3) When bulk freight is loaded by a shipper who makes available to the issuer adequate facilities for weighing such freight, an issuer who is a common carrier must ascertain the kind and quantity within a reasonable time after receiving the written request of the shipper to do so. In such cases “shipper's weight” or other words of like purport are ineffective. (4) The issuer may by inserting in the bill the words “shipper's weight, load and count” or other words of like purport indicate that the goods were loaded by the shipper; and if such statement be true the issuer shall not be liable for damages caused by the improper loading. But their omission does not imply liability for such damages. (5) The shipper shall be deemed to have guaranteed to the issuer the accuracy at the time of shipment of the description, marks, labels, number, kind, quantity, condition and weight, as furnished by him; and the shipper shall indemnify the issuer against damage caused by inaccuracies in such particulars. The right of the issuer to such indemnity shall in no way limit his responsibility and liability under the contract of carriage to any person other than the shipper.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-302 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 3 - Bills of Lading: Special Provisions|§ 7-302. Through bills of lading and similar documents

 (1) The issuer of a through bill of lading or other document embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by persons acting as its agents or by connecting carriers is liable to anyone entitled to recover on the document for any breach by such other persons or by a connecting carrier of its obligation under the document but to the extent that the bill covers an undertaking to be performed overseas or in territory not contiguous to the continental United States or an undertaking including matters other than transportation this liability may be varied by agreement of the parties. (2) Where goods covered by a through bill of lading or other document embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by persons other than the issuer are received by any such person, he is subject with respect to his own performance while the goods are in his possession to the obligation of the issuer. His obligation is discharged by delivery of the goods to another such person pursuant to the document, and does not include liability for breach by any other such persons or by the issuer. (3) The issuer of such through bill of lading or other document shall be entitled to recover from the connecting carrier or such other person in possession of the goods when the breach of the obligation under the document occurred, the amount it may be required to pay to anyone entitled to recover on the document therefor, as may be evidenced by any receipt, judgment, or transcript thereof, and the amount of any expense reasonably incurred by it in defending any action brought by anyone entitled to recover on the document therefor.