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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 364 - Examination of stored products

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cause examinations to be made of any agricultural product stored in any warehouse licensed under §§ 341—371 of this title. Whenever, after opportunity for hearing is given to the warehouseman conducting such warehouse, it is determined that he is not performing fully the duties imposed on him by §§ 341—371 of this title and the rules and regulations made hereunder, the Secretary of Agriculture may publish his findings.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 23, eff. 90 days after June 20, 1925.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 365 - Revocation of warehouseman’s license

The Secretary of Agriculture may, after opportunity for a hearing has been afforded to the licensee concerned, suspend or revoke any license issued to any warehouseman authorized hereunder, for any violation of or failure to comply with any provisions of §§ 341—371 of this title or of the rules and regulations issued hereunder or for having collected unreasonable or exorbitant fees for services rendered. Pending investigation, the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever he deems necessary, may suspend a license temporarily, without a hearing. Whenever it is necessary to revoke the license of a warehouseman licensed under §§ 341—371 of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture may take charge of such warehouse, and shall publish such revocation in the press or by such other means as he may deem convenient. The expenses incurred by the Secretary of Agriculture in the management of such warehouse when he takes charge, shall be reimbursed to him in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 24; May 12, 1934, No. 42, p. 334, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 366 - Revocation of warehouseman’s licence—Suspension

When in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture it becomes necessary to suspend the license of a warehouseman licensed under §§ 341—371 of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture may take charge of such warehouse in the same form as in the case of a revocation of a license, and such expenses as he may incur while in charge of the management of the warehouse, shall be collected in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe in connection with §§ 341—371 of this title.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, added as § 24-A on May 12, 1934, No. 42, p. 334, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 367 - Publication of results of investigation

The Secretary of Agriculture, from time to time, may publish the results of any investigation made under § 343 of this title; and he shall publish the names and locations of warehouses licensed and bonded, the names and addresses of persons licensed under §§ 341—371 of this title and lists of all licenses terminated under §§ 341—371 of this title and the causes therefor.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 25, eff. 90 days after June 20, 1925.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 368 - Examination of books

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, through officials, employees, or agents of the Department of Agriculture designated by him, to examine all books, records, papers and accounts of warehouses licensed under §§ 341—371 of this title, and of the warehousemen conducting such warehouses relating thereto.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 26, eff. 90 days after June 20, 1925.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 369 - Rules and regulations; penalties

The Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time, prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions of §§ 341—371 of this title. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to levy and collect, by administrative proceedings, from every warehouseman licensed under §§ 341—371 of this title who fails to comply with any of such regulations, and in cases of misdemeanor against §§ 341—371 of this title, a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) or more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation, or he may, in his judgment, file a complaint against such person, in the corresponding court for failure to comply with the regulations or for any violation of the law.
When the Secretary of Agriculture levies an administrative fine as hereinbefore provided, and such fine is not paid, the amount of the fine shall be paid by the warehouseman’s bondsman or bondsmen.
The amount of the fines levied under this section, shall be covered into the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 27; May 12, 1934, No. 42, p. 334, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 370 - Penalties

Every person who shall forge, alter, counterfeit, simulate or falsely represent, or shall, without proper authority, use, any license issued by the Secretary of Agriculture under §§ 341—371 of this title, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any provision of § 349 of this title or who shall issue or utter a false or fraudulent receipt or certificate, shall be deemed guilty of a felony.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 28, eff. 90 days after June 20, 1925.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 19 - Regulation of Warehouses (§§ 341 — 371) › § 371 - Preference to coffee and tobacco warehouses; temporary personnel

The Secretary of Agriculture shall give preference to the establishment of bonded warehouses for coffee and tobacco in the corresponding zones. The said Secretary is also authorized, in his discretion, to employ all such persons who, without being regular employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, are necessary to render temporary assistance in the application of §§ 341—371 of this title, as well as to pay the salaries and expenses thereof chargeable to the funds hereby appropriated.
History —June 20, 1925, No. 36, p. 220, § 29; Apr. 25, 1932, No. 28, p. 248, § 1; May 12, 1934, No. 42, p. 334, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 391 - Persons who may issue receipts

Warehouse receipts may be issued by any warehouseman.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 392 - Form of receipts—Essential terms

Warehouse receipts need not be in any particular form, but every such receipt must embody, within its written or printed terms:
(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 charges.
(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.
(i) A statement of the amount of advances made and of liabilities incurred for which the warehouseman claims a lien. 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.
A warehouseman shall be liable to any person injured thereby, for all damage caused by the omission from a negotiable receipt of any of the terms herein required.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 393 - Form of receipts—What terms may be inserted

A warehouseman may insert in a receipt, issued by him, any other terms and conditions, provided that such terms and conditions shall not:
(a) Be contrary to the provisions of this chapter.
(b) In any wise impair his obligation to exercise that degree of care in the safe-keeping of the goods entrusted to him which a reasonably careful man would exercise in regard to similar goods of his own.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 394 - Definition of nonnegotiable receipt

A receipt in which it is stated that the goods received will be delivered to the depositor, or to any other specified person, is a nonnegotiable receipt.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 395 - Definition of negotiable receipt

A receipt in which it is stated that the goods received will be delivered to the bearer, or to the order of any person named in such receipt is a negotiable receipt. No provision shall be inserted in a negotiable receipt that it is nonnegotiable. Such provision, if inserted, shall be void.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 396 - Duplicate receipts must be so marked

When more than one negotiable receipt is issued for the same goods, the word “duplicate” shall be plainly placed upon the face of every such receipt, except the one first issued. A warehouseman shall be liable for all damages caused by his failure so to do to any one who purchased the subsequent receipt for value supposing it to be an original, even though the purchase be after the delivery of the goods by the warehouseman to the holder of the original receipt.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 397 - Failure to mark “not negotiable”

A nonnegotiable receipt shall have plainly placed upon its face by the warehouseman issuing it “nonnegotiable,” or “not negotiable.” In case of the warehouseman’s failure so to do, a holder of the receipt who purchased it for value supposing it to be negotiable, may, at his option, treat such receipt as imposing upon the warehouseman the same liabilities he would have incurred had the receipt been negotiable. This section shall not apply, however, to letters, memoranda, or written acknowledgments of an informal character.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 398 - Obligation of warehouseman to deliver

A warehouseman, in the absence of some lawful excuse provided by this chapter, is bound to deliver the goods upon a demand made either by the holder of a receipt for the goods or by the depositor, if such demand is accompanied with:
(a) An offer to satisfy the warehouseman’s lien;
(b) an offer to surrender the receipt if negotiable, with such indorsements as would be necessary for the negotiations of the receipt, and
(c) a readiness and willingness to sign, when the goods are delivered, an acknowledgment that they have been delivered, if such signature is requested by the warehouseman.
In case the warehouseman refuses or fails to deliver the goods in compliance with a demand by the holder or depositor so accompanied, the burden shall be upon the warehouseman to establish the existence of a lawful excuse for such refusal.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 399 - Justification of warehouseman in delivering

A warehouseman is justified in delivering the goods, subject to the provisions of the three following sections, to one who is:
(a) The person lawfully entitled to the possession of the goods, or his agent;
(b) a person who is either himself entitled to delivery by the terms of a nonnegotiable receipt issued for the goods, or who has written authority from the person so entitled either indorsed upon the receipt or written upon another paper, or
(c) a person in possession of a negotiable receipt by the terms of which the goods are deliverable to him or order or to bearer, or which has been endorsed to him or in blank by the person to whom delivery was promised by the terms of the receipt or by his mediate or immediate indorsee.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 400 - Warehouseman’s liability for misdelivery

Where a warehouseman delivers the goods to one who is not in fact lawfully entitled to the possession of them, the warehouseman shall be liable as for conversion to all having a right of property or possession in the goods if he delivered the goods otherwise than as authorized by subsections (b) and (c) of § 399 of this title and though he delivered the goods as authorized by said subdivisions he shall be so liable, if prior to such delivery he had either:
(a) Been requested, by or on behalf of the person lawfully entitled to a right of property or possession in the goods, not to make such delivery, or
(b) had information that the delivery about to be made was to one not lawfully entitled to the possession of the goods.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 401 - Negotiable receipts must be canceled when goods delivered

Except as provided in § 426 of this title, where a warehouseman delivers goods for which he had issued a negotiable receipt, the negotiation of which would transfer the right to the possession of the goods, and fails to take up and cancel the receipt, he shall be liable to any one who purchases for value in good faith such receipt, for failure to deliver the goods to him, whether such purchaser acquired title to the receipt before or after the delivery of the goods by the warehouseman.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 402 - Negotiable receipts must be canceled or marked when part of goods delivered

Except as provided in § 426 of this title, where a warehouseman delivers part of the goods for which he had issued a negotiable receipt and fails either to take up and cancel such receipt, or to place plainly upon it a statement of what goods or packages have been delivered he shall be liable, to any one who purchases for value in good faith such receipt, for failure to deliver all the goods specified in the receipt, whether such purchaser acquired title to the receipt before or after the delivery of any portion of any of the goods by the warehouseman.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 403 - Altered receipts

The alteration of a receipt shall not excuse the warehouseman who issued it from any liability if such alteration was:
(a) Immaterial;
(b) authorized, or
(c) made without fraudulent intent.
If the alteration was authorized, the warehouseman shall be liable according to the terms of the receipt as altered. If the alteration was unauthorized, but made without fraudulent intent, the warehouseman shall be liable according to the terms of the receipt, as they were before alteration.
Material and fraudulent alteration of a receipt shall not excuse the warehouseman who issued it from liability to deliver according to the terms of the receipt as originally issued, the goods for which it was issued, but shall excuse him from any other liability to the person who made the alteration and to any person who took with notice of the alteration. Any purchaser of the receipt for value without notice of the alteration shall acquire the same rights against the warehouseman which such purchaser would have acquired if the receipt had not been altered at the time of the purchase.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 404 - Lost or destroyed receipts

Where a negotiable receipt has been lost or destroyed, a court of competent jurisdiction may order the delivery of the goods upon satisfactory proof of such loss or destruction and upon the giving of a bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the court to protect the warehouseman from any liability or expense which he or any person injured by such delivery may incur by reason of the original receipt remaining outstanding. The court may also in its discretion order the payment of the warehouseman’s reasonable costs and counsel fees.
The delivery of the goods under an order of the court as provided in this section, shall not relieve the warehouseman from liability to a person to whom the negotiable receipt has been or shall be negotiated for value without notice of the proceedings or of the delivery of the goods.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 405 - Effect of duplicate receipts

A receipt upon the face of which the word “duplicate” is plainly placed is a representation and warranty by the warehouseman that such receipt is an accurate copy of an original receipt properly issued and uncanceled at the date of the issue of the duplicate, but shall impose upon him no other liability.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 406 - Warehouseman cannot set up title in himself

No title or right to the possession of the goods, on the part of the warehouseman, unless such title or right is derived directly or indirectly from a transfer made by the depositor at the time of or subsequent to the deposit for storage, or from the warehouseman’s lien, shall excuse the warehouseman from liability for refusing to deliver the goods according to the terms of the receipt.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 16.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 407 - Interpleader of adverse claimants

If more than one person claims the title or possession of the goods, the warehouseman may, either as a defense to an action brought against him for nondelivery of the goods, or as an original suit, whichever is appropriate, require all known claimants to interplead.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 17.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 408 - Warehouseman has reasonable time to determine validity of claims

If some one other than the depositor or person claiming under him has a claim to the title or possession of the goods, and the warehouseman has information of such claim, the warehouseman shall be excused from liability for refusing to deliver the goods, either to the depositor or person claiming under him or to the adverse claimant, until the warehouseman has had a reasonable time to ascertain the validity of the adverse claim or to bring legal proceedings to compel all claimants to interplead.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 18.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 409 - Adverse title is no defense except as above provided

Except as provided in §§ 407 and 408 of this title and in §§ 399 and 426 of this title, no right or title of a third person shall be a defense to an action brought by the depositor or person claiming under him against the warehouseman for failure to deliver the goods according to the terms of the receipt.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 19.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 410 - Liability for nonexistence or incorrect description of goods

A warehouseman shall be liable to the holder of a receipt for damages caused by the nonexistence of the goods or by the failure of the goods to correspond with the description thereof in the receipt at the time of its issue. If, however, the goods are described in a receipt merely by a statement of marks or labels upon them, or upon packages containing them, or by a statement that the goods are said to be of a certain kind, or that the packages containing the goods are said to contain goods of a certain kind, or by words of like purport, such statements, if true, shall not make liable the warehouseman issuing the receipt, although the goods are not of the kind which the marks or labels upon them indicate, or of the kind they were said to be by the depositor.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 20.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 411 - Liability for care of goods

A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful owner of similar goods would exercise, but he shall not be liable, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, for any loss or injury to the goods which could not have been avoided by the exercise of such care.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 21.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 412 - Goods must be kept separate

Except as provided in § 413 of this title, a warehouseman shall keep the goods so far separate from goods of other depositors, and from other goods of the same depositor for which a separate receipt has been issued, as to permit at all times the identification and re-delivery of the goods deposited.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 22.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 413 - Fungible goods may be commingled, if warehouseman authorized

If authorized by agreement or by custom, a warehouseman may mingle fungible goods with other goods of the same kind and grade. In such case the various depositors of the mingled goods shall own the entire mass in common and each depositor shall be entitled to such portion thereof as the amount deposited by him bears to the whole.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 23.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 414 - Liability of warehouseman to depositors of commingled goods

The warehouseman shall be severally liable to each depositor for the care and redelivery of his share of such mass to the same extent and under the same circumstances as if the goods had been kept separate.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 24.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 415 - Attachment or levy upon goods for which negotiable receipt has been issued

If goods are delivered to a warehouseman by the owner or by a person whose act in conveying the title to them to a purchaser in good faith for value would bind the owner, and a negotiable receipt is issued for them, they cannot thereafter while in the possession of the warehouseman, be attached by garnishment or otherwise, or be levied upon under an execution, unless the receipt be first surrendered to the warehouseman, or its negotiation enjoined. The warehouseman shall in no case be compelled to deliver up the actual possession of the goods until the receipt is surrendered to him or impounded by the court.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 25.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 416 - Creditors’ remedies to reach negotiable receipts

A creditor whose debtor is the owner of a negotiable receipt shall be entitled to such aid from courts of appropriate jurisdiction, by injunction and otherwise, in attaching such receipt or in satisfying the claim by means thereof as is allowed at law or in equity, in regard to property which cannot readily be attached or levied upon legal process.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 26.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 417 - What claims are included in the warehouseman’s lien

Subject to the provisions of § 420 of this title, a warehouseman shall have a lien on goods deposited or on the proceeds thereof in his hands, for all lawful charges for storage and preservation of the goods; also for all lawful claims for money advanced, interest, insurance, transportation, labor, weighing, coopering and other charges and expenses in relation to such goods; also for all reasonable charges and expenses for notice, and advertisements of sale, and for sale of the goods where default has been made in satisfying the warehouseman’s lien.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 27.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 418 - Against what property the lien may be enforced

Subject to the provisions of § 420 of this title a warehouseman’s lien may be enforced:
(a) Against all goods, whenever deposited, belonging to the person who is liable as debtor for the claims in regard to which the lien is asserted, and
(b) against all goods belonging to others which have been deposited at any time by the person who is liable as debtor for the claims in regard to which the lien is asserted if such person has been so entrusted with the possession of the goods that a pledge of the same by him at the time of the deposit to one who took the goods in good faith for value would have been valid.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 28.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 419 - How the lien may be lost

A warehouseman loses his lien upon goods:
(a) By surrendering possession thereof, or
(b) by refusing to deliver the goods when a demand is made with which he is bound to comply under the provisions of this chapter.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 29.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 420 - Negotiable receipt must state charges for which lien is claimed

If a negotiable receipt is issued for goods, the warehouseman shall have no lien thereon, except for charges for storage of these goods subsequent to the date of the receipt, unless the receipt expressly enumerates other charges for which a lien is claimed. In such case there shall be a lien for the charges enumerated so far as they are within the terms of § 417 of this title, although the amount of the charges so enumerated is not stated in the receipt.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 30.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 421 - Warehouseman need not deliver until lien is satisfied

A warehouseman having a lien valid against the person demanding the goods may refuse to deliver the goods to him until the lien is satisfied.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 31.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 422 - Warehouseman’s lien does not preclude other remedies

Whether a warehouseman has or has not a lien upon the goods, he is entitled to all remedies allowed by law to a creditor against his debtor, for the collection from the depositor of all charges and advances which the depositor has expressly or impliedly contracted with the warehouseman to pay.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 32.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 424 - Perishable and hazardous goods

If goods are of a perishable nature, or by keeping will deteriorate greatly in value, or by their odor, leakage, inflammability, or explosive nature, will be liable to injure other property, the warehouseman may give such notice to the owner, or the person in whose name the goods are stored, as is reasonable and possible under the circumstances, to satisfy the lien upon such goods, and to remove them from the warehouse, and in the event of the failure of such persons to satisfy the lien and to remove the goods within the time as specified, the warehouseman may sell the goods at public or private sale without advertising. If the warehouseman after a reasonable effort is unable to sell such goods, he may dispose of them in any lawful manner, and shall incur no liability by reason thereof.
The proceeds of any sale made under the terms of this section shall be disposed of in the same way as the proceeds of sales made under the terms of the preceding section.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 34.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 425 - Other methods of enforcing liens

The remedy for enforcing a lien herein provided does not preclude any other remedies allowed by law for the enforcement of a lien against personal property nor bar the right to recover so much of the warehouseman’s claim as shall not be paid by the proceeds of the sale of the property.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 35.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 426 - Effect of sale

After goods have been lawfully sold to satisfy a warehouseman’s lien, or have been lawfully sold or disposed of because of their perishable or hazardous nature, the warehouseman shall not thereafter be liable for failure to deliver the goods to the depositor, or owner of the goods, or to a holder of the receipt given for the goods when they were deposited, even if such receipt be negotiable.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 36.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 427 - Negotiation of negotiable receipts by delivery

A negotiable receipt may be negotiated by delivery:
(a) Where, by the terms of the receipt, the warehouseman undertakes to deliver the goods to the bearer, or
(b) where, by the terms of the receipt, the warehouseman undertakes to deliver the goods to the order of a specified person, and such person or a subsequent indorsee of the receipt has indorsed it in blank or to bearer.
Where, by the terms of a negotiable receipt, the goods are deliverable to bearer or where a negotiable receipt has been indorsed in blank or to bearer, any holder may indorse the same to himself or to any other specified person, and in such case the receipt shall thereafter be negotiated only by the indorsement of such indorsee.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 37.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 428 - Negotiation of negotiable receipts by indorsement

A negotiable receipt may be negotiated by the indorsement of the person to whose order the goods are, by the terms of the receipt, deliverable. Such indorsement may be in blank, to bearer or to a specified person. If indorsed to a specified person, it may be again negotiated by the indorsement of such person in blank, to bearer or to another specified person. Subsequent negotiation may be made in like manner.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 38.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 429 - Transfer of receipts

A receipt which is not in such form that it can be negotiated by delivery may be transferred by the holder by delivery to a purchaser or donee.
A nonnegotiable receipt cannot be negotiated, and the indorsement of such a receipt gives the transferee no additional right.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 39.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 430 - Who may negotiate a receipt

A negotiable receipt may be negotiated:
(a) By the owner thereof, or
(b) by any person to whom the possession or custody of the receipt has been entrusted by the owner, if, by the terms of the receipt, the warehouseman undertakes to deliver the goods to the order of the person to whom the possession or custody of the receipt has been entrusted, or if at the time of such entrusting the receipt is in such form that it may be negotiated by delivery.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 40.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 431 - Rights of person to whom a receipt has been negotiated

A person to whom a negotiable receipt has been duly negotiated acquires thereby:
(a) Such title to the goods as the person negotiating the receipt to him had or had ability to convey to a purchaser in good faith for value, and also such title to the goods as the depositor or person to whose order the goods were to be delivered by the terms of the receipt had or had ability to convey to a purchaser in good faith for value, and
(b) the direct obligation of the warehouseman to hold possession of the goods for him according to the terms of the receipt as fully as if the warehouseman had contracted directly with him.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 41.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 432 - Rights of person to whom a receipt has been transferred

A person to whom a receipt has been transferred but not negotiated, acquires thereby, as against the transferor, the title of the goods, subject to the terms of any agreement with the transferor.
If the receipt is nonnegotiable such person also acquires the right to notify the warehouseman of the transfer to him of such receipt, and thereby to acquire the direct obligation of the warehouseman to hold possession of the goods for him according to the terms of the receipt.
Prior to the notification of the warehouseman by the transferor or transferee of a nonnegotiable receipt, the title of the transferee to the goods and the right to acquire the obligation of the warehouseman may be defeated by the levy of an attachment or execution upon the goods by a creditor of the transferor, or by a notification to the warehouseman by the transferor or a subsequent purchaser from the transferor of a subsequent sale of the goods by the transferor.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 42.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 433 - Transfer of negotiable receipt without indorsement

Where a negotiable receipt is transferred for value by delivery, and the indorsement of the transferor is essential for negotiation, the transferee acquires a right against the transferor to compel him to indorse the receipt, unless a contrary intention appears. The negotiation shall take effect as of the time when the indorsement is actually made.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 43.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 434 - Warranties on sale of receipt

A person who, for value, negotiates or transfers a receipt by indorsement or delivery, including one who assigns for value, a claim secured by a receipt, unless a contrary intention appears, warrants:
(a) That the receipt is genuine;
(b) that he has a legal right to negotiate or transfer it;
(c) that he has knowledge of no fact which would impair the validity or worth of the receipt, and
(d) that he has a right to transfer the title to the goods and that the goods are merchantable or fit for a particular purpose whenever such warranties would have been implied, if the contract of the parties had been to transfer without a receipt the goods represented thereby.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 44.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 435 - Indorser not a guarantor

The indorsement of a receipt shall not make the indorser liable for any failure on the part of the warehouseman or previous indorsers of the receipt to fulfil their respective obligations.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 45.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 436 - No warranty implied from accepting payment of a debt

A pledgee or holder for security of a receipt who in good faith demands or receives payment of the debt for which such receipt is security, whether from a party to a draft drawn for such debt or from any other person, shall not by so doing be deemed to represent or to warrant the genuineness of such receipt or the quantity or quality of the goods therein described.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 46.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 437 - When negotiation not impaired by fraud, mistake, or duress

The validity of the negotiation of a receipt is not impaired by the fact that such negotiation was a breach of duty on the part of the person making the negotiation, or by the fact the owner of the receipt was induced by fraud, mistake, or duress to intrust the possession or custody of the receipt to such person, if the person to whom the receipt was negotiated, or a person to whom the receipt was subsequently negotiated, paid value therefor, without notice of the breach of duty, or fraud, mistake or duress.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 47.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 438 - Subsequent negotiation

Where a person having sold or pledged goods which are in a warehouse and for which a negotiable receipt has been issued, or having sold or pledged the negotiable receipt representing such goods, continues in possession of the negotiable receipt, the subsequent negotiation thereof by that person under any sale, or other disposition thereof to any person receiving the same in good faith, for value and without notice of the previous sale or pledge, shall have the same effect as if the first purchaser of the goods or receipt had expressly authorized the subsequent negotiation.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 48.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 439 - Negotiation defeats vendor’s lien

Where a negotiable receipt has been issued for goods, no seller’s lien or right of stoppage in transit shall defeat the rights of any purchaser for value in good faith to whom such receipt has been negotiated, whether such negotiation be prior or subsequent to the notification to the warehouseman who issued such receipt of the seller’s claim to a lien or right of stoppage in transit. Nor shall the warehouseman be obliged to deliver or justified in delivering the goods to an unpaid seller unless the receipt is first surrendered for cancellation.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 49.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 440 - Issue of receipt for goods not received

A warehouseman or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a receipt knowing that the goods for which such receipt is issued have not been actually received by such warehouseman, or are not under his actual control at the time of issuing such receipt, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 50.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 441 - Issue of receipt containing false statement

A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who fraudulently issues or aids in fraudulently issuing a receipt for goods knowing that it contains any false statement, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 51.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 442 - Issue of duplicate receipts not so marked

A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable receipt for goods knowing that a former negotiable receipt for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncanceled, without plainly placing upon the face thereof of word “duplicate” except in the case of a lost or destroyed receipt after proceedings as provided for in § 404 of this title, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 52.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 443 - Issue for warehouseman’s goods of receipts which do not state that fact

Where there are deposited with or held by a warehouseman goods of which he is owner, either solely or jointly or in common with others, such warehouseman, or any of his officers, agents, or servants who, knowing this ownership, issues or aids in issuing a negotiable receipt for such goods which does not state such ownership shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 53.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TEN - Commerce (§§ 1 — 4196) › Subtitle 1 - Regulation of Business Generally (§§ 1 — 998q) › Chapter 21 - Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act (§§ 391 — 448) › § 444 - Delivery of goods without obtaining negotiable receipt

A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman who delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouseman, knowing that a negotiable receipt the negotiation of which would transfer the right to the possession of such goods is outstanding and uncanceled, without obtaining the possession of such receipt at or before the time of such delivery, shall, except in the cases provided for in §§ 404 and 416 of this title, be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both.
History —Feb. 21, 1918, No. 9, p. 22, § 54.