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V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-303 (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|§ 7-303. Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions

 (1) Unless the bill of lading otherwise provides, the carrier may deliver the goods to a person or destination other than that stated in the bill or may otherwise dispose of the goods on instructions from (a) the holder of a negotiable bill; or (b) the consignor on a non-negotiable bill notwithstanding contrary instructions from the consignee; or (c) the consignee on a non-negotiable bill in the absence of contrary instructions from the consignor, if the goods have arrived at the billed destination or if the consignee is in possession of the bill; or (d) the consignee on a non-negotiable bill if he is entitled as against the consignor to dispose of them. (2) Unless such instructions are noted on a negotiable bill of lading, a person to whom the bill is duly negotiated can hold the bailee according to the original terms.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-304 (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|§ 7-304. Bills of lading in a set

 (1) Except where customary in overseas transportation, a bill of lading must not be issued in a set of parts. The issuer is liable for damages caused by violation of this subsection. (2) Where a bill of lading is lawfully drawn in a set of parts, each of which is numbered and expressed to be valid only if the goods have not been delivered against any other part, the whole of the parts constitute one bill. (3) Where a bill of lading is lawfully issued in a set of parts and different parts are negotiated to different persons, the title of the holder to whom the first due negotiation is made prevails as to both the document and the goods even though any later holder may have received the goods from the carrier in good faith and discharged the carrier's obligation by surrender of his part. (4) Any person who negotiates or transfers a single part of a bill of lading drawn in a set is liable to holders of that part as if it were the whole set. (5) The bailee is obliged to deliver in accordance with part 4 of this article against the first presented part of a bill of lading lawfully drawn in a set. Such delivery discharges the bailee's obligation on the whole bill.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-305 (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|§ 7-305. Destination bills

 (1) Instead of issuing a bill of lading to the consignor at the place of shipment a carrier may at the request of the consignor procure the bill to be issued at destination or at any other place designated in the request. (2) Upon request of anyone entitled as against the carrier to control the goods while in transit and on surrender of any outstanding bill of lading or other receipt covering such goods, the issuer may procure a substitute bill to be issued at any place designated in the request.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-306 (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|§ 7-306. Altered bills of lading

 An unauthorized alteration or filling in of a blank in a bill of lading leaves the bill enforceable according to its original tenor.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-307 (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|§ 7-307. Lien of carrier

 (1) A carrier has a lien on the goods covered by a bill of lading for charges subsequent to the date of its receipt of the goods for storage or transportation (including demurrage and terminal charges) and for expenses necessary for preservation of the goods incident to their transportation or reasonably incurred in their sale pursuant to law. But against a purchaser for value of a negotiable bill of lading a carrier's lien is limited to charges stated in the bill or the applicable tariffs, or if no charges are stated then to a reasonable charge. (2) A lien for charges and expenses under subsection (1) on goods which the carrier was required by law to receive for transportation is effective against the consignor or any person entitled to the goods unless the carrier had notice that the consignor lacked authority to subject the goods to such charges and expenses. Any other lien under subsection (1) is effective against the consignor and any person who permitted the bailor to have control or possession of the goods unless the carrier had notice that the bailor lacked such authority. (3) A carrier loses his lien on any goods which he voluntarily delivers or which he unjustifiably refuses to deliver.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-308 (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|§ 7-308. Enforcement of carrier's lien

 (1) A carrier's lien may be enforced by public or private sale of the goods, in block or in parcels, at any time or place and on any terms which are commercially reasonable, after notifying all persons known to claim an interest in the goods. Such notification must include a statement of the amount due, the nature of the proposed sale and the time and place of any public sale. The fact that a better price could have been obtained by a sale at a different time or in a different method from that selected by the carrier is not of itself sufficient to establish that the sale was not made in a commercially reasonable manner. If the carrier either sells the goods in the usual manner in any recognized market therefor or if he sells at the price current in such market at the time of his sale or if he has otherwise sold in conformity with commercially reasonable practices among dealers in the type of goods sold he has sold in a commercially reasonable manner. A sale of more goods than apparently necessary to be offered to ensure satisfaction of the obligation is not commercially reasonable except in cases covered by the preceding sentence. (2) Before any sale pursuant to this section any person claiming a right in the goods may pay the amount necessary to satisfy the lien and the reasonable expenses incurred under this section. In that event the goods must not be sold, but must be retained by the carrier subject to the terms of the bill and this article. (3) The carrier may buy at any public sale pursuant to this section. (4) A purchaser in good faith of goods sold to enforce a carrier's lien takes the goods free of any rights of persons against whom the lien was valid, despite noncompliance by the carrier with the requirements of this section. (5) The carrier may satisfy his lien from the proceeds of any sale pursuant to this section but must hold the balance, if any, for delivery on demand to any person to whom he would have been bound to deliver the goods. (6) The rights provided by this section shall be in addition to all other rights allowed by law to a creditor against his debtor. (7) A carrier's lien may be enforced in accordance with either subsection (1) or the procedure set forth in subsection (2) of section 7–210. (8) The carrier is liable for damages caused by failure to comply with the requirements for sale under this section and in case of willful violation is liable for conversion.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-309 (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|§ 7-309. Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability

 (1) A carrier who issues a bill of lading whether negotiable or non-negotiable must exercise the degree of care in relation to the goods which a reasonably careful man would exercise under like circumstances. This subsection does not repeal or change any law or rule of law which imposes liability upon a common carrier for damages not caused by its negligence. (2) Damages may be limited by a provision that the carrier's liability shall not exceed a value stated in the document if the carrier's rates are dependent upon value and the consignor by the carrier's tariff is afforded an opportunity to declare a higher value or a value as lawfully provided in the tariff, or where no tariff is filed he is otherwise advised of such opportunity; but no such limitation is effective with respect to the carrier's liability for conversion to its own use. (3) Reasonable provisions as to the time and manner of presenting claims and instituting actions based on the shipment may be included in a bill of lading or tariff.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-401 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 4 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations|§ 7-401. Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer

 The obligations imposed by this article on an issuer apply to a document of title regardless of the fact that (a) the document may not comply with the requirements of this article or of any other law or regulation regarding its issue, form or content; or (b) the issuer may have violated laws regulating the conduct of his business; or (c) the goods covered by the document were owned by the bailee at the time the document was issued; or (d) the person issuing the document does not come within the definition of warehouseman if it purports to be a warehouse receipt.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-402 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 4 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations|§ 7-402. Duplicate receipt or bill; overissue

 Neither a duplicate nor any other document of title purporting to cover goods already represented by an outstanding document of the same issuer confers any right in the goods, except as provided in the case of bills in a set, overissue of documents for fungible goods and substitutes for lost, stolen or destroyed documents. But the issuer is liable for damages caused by his overissue or failure to identify a duplicate document as such by conspicuous notation on its face.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-403 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 4 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations|§ 7-403. Obligation of warehouseman or carrier to deliver; excuse

 (1) The bailee must deliver the goods to a person entitled under the document who complies with subsections (2) and (3), unless and to the extent that the bailee establishes any of the following: (a) delivery of the goods to a person whose receipt was rightful as against the claimant; (b) damage to or delay, loss or destruction of the goods for which the bailee is not liable; (c) previous sale or other disposition of the goods in lawful enforcement of a lien or on warehouseman's lawful termination of storage; (d) the exercise by a seller of his right to stop delivery pursuant to the provisions of the article on Sales (§ 2–705); (e) a diversion, reconsignment or other disposition pursuant to the provisions of this article (§ 7–303) or tariff regulating such right; (f) release, satisfaction or any other fact affording a personal defense against the claimant; (g) any other lawful excuse. (2) A person claiming goods covered by a document of title must satisfy the bailee's lien where the bailee so requests or where the bailee is prohibited by law from delivering the goods until the charges are paid. (3) Unless the person claiming is one against whom the document confers no right under section 7–503(1), he must surrender for cancellation or notation of partial deliveries any outstanding negotiable document covering the goods, and the bailee must cancel the document or conspicuously note the partial delivery thereon or be liable to any person to whom the document is duly negotiated. (4) “Person entitled under the document” means holder in the case of a negotiable document, or the person to whom delivery is to be made by the terms of or pursuant to written instructions under a non-negotiable document.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-404 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 4 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations|§ 7-404. No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to receipt or bill

 A bailee who in good faith including observance of reasonable commercial standards has received goods and delivered or otherwise disposed of them according to the terms of the document of title or pursuant to this article is not liable therefor. This rule applies even though the person from whom he received the goods had no authority to procure the document or to dispose of the goods and even though the person to whom he delivered the goods had no authority to receive them.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-501 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-501. Form of negotiation and requirements of “due negotiation”

 (1) A negotiable document of title running to the order of a named person is negotiated by his indorsement and delivery. After his indorsement in blank or to bearer any person can negotiate it by delivery alone. (2)  (a) A negotiable document of title is also negotiated by delivery alone when by its original terms it runs to bearer. (b) When a document running to the order of a named person is delivered to him the effect is the same as if the document had been negotiated. (3) Negotiation of a negotiable document of title after it has been indorsed to a specified person requires indorsement by the special indorsee as well as delivery. (4) A negotiable document of title is “duly negotiated” when it is negotiated in the manner stated in this section to a holder who purchases it in good faith without notice of any defense against or claim to it on the part of any person and for value, unless it is established that the negotiation is not in the regular course of business or financing or involves receiving the document in settlement or payment of a money obligation. (5) Indorsement of a non-negotiable document neither makes it negotiable nor adds to the transferee's rights. (6) The naming in a negotiable bill of a person to be notified of the arrival of the goods does not limit the negotiability of the bill nor constitute notice to a purchaser thereof of any interest of such person in the goods.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-502 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-502. Rights acquired by due negotiation

 (1) Subject to the following section and to the provisions of section 7–205 on fungible goods, a holder to whom a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby: (a) title to the document; (b) title to the goods; (c) all rights accruing under the law of agency or estoppel, including rights to goods delivered to the bailee after the document was issued; and (d) the direct obligation of the issuer to hold or deliver the goods according to the terms of the document free of any defense or claim 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 constituted 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 made to a third person.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-503 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 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 (§ 7–403) or with power of disposition under this Act (Sections 2–403 and 9–320) or other statute or rule of law; nor (b) acquiesced in the procurement by the bailor or his nominee of any document of title.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-504 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 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 non-negotiable, 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) In 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 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. (4) Delivery pursuant to a non-negotiable document may be stopped by a seller under section 2–705, and subject to the requirement of due notification there provided. A bailee honoring the seller's instructions is entitled to be indemnified by the seller against any resulting loss or expense.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-505 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-505. Indorser not a guarantor for other parties

 The indorsement of a document of title issued by a bailee does not make the indorser liable for any default by the bailee or by previous indorsers.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-506 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-506. Delivery without indorsement: right to compel indorsement

 The transferee of a negotiable document of title has a specifically enforceable right to have his transferor supply any necessary indorsement but the transfer becomes a negotiation only as of the time the endorsement is supplied.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-507 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-507. Warranties on negotiation or transfer of receipt or bill

 Where a person negotiates or transfers a document of title for value otherwise than as a mere intermediary under the next following section, then unless otherwise agreed he warrants to his immediate purchaser only in addition to any warranty made in selling the goods (a) that the document is genuine; and (b) that he has no knowledge of any fact which would impair its validity or worth; and (c) that his negotiation or transfer is rightful and fully effective with respect to the title to the document and the goods it represents.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-508 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-508. Warranties of collecting bank as to documents

 A collecting bank or other intermediary known to be entrusted with documents on behalf of another or with collection of a draft or other claim against delivery of documents warrants by such delivery of the documents only its own good faith and authority. This rule applies even though the intermediary has purchased or made advances against the claim or draft to be collected.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-509 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 5 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer|§ 7-509. Receipt or bill; when adequate compliance with commercial contract

 The question whether a document is adequate to fulfill the obligations of a contract for sale or the conditions of a credit is governed by the articles on Sales (art. 2) and on Letters of Credit (art. 5).
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 7-601 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 7 - Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title|Part 6 - Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 7-601. Lost and missing documents

 (1) If a document has been lost, stolen or destroyed, a court may order delivery of the goods or issuance of a substitute document and the bailee may without liability to any person comply with such order. If the document was negotiable the claimant must post security approved by the court to indemnify any person who may suffer loss as a result of non-surrender of the document. If the document was not negotiable, such security may be required at the discretion of the court. The court may also in its discretion order payment of the bailee's reasonable costs and counsel fees. (2) A bailee who without court order delivers goods to a person claiming under a missing negotiable document is liable to any person injured thereby, and if the delivery is not in good faith becomes liable for conversion. Delivery in good faith is not conversion if made in accordance with a filed classification or tariff or, where no classification or tariff is filed, if the claimant posts security with the bailee in an amount at least double the value of the goods at the time of posting to indemnify any person injured by the delivery who files a notice of claim within one year after the delivery.