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Commercial Code § 7507

CHAPTER 5. Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation and Transfer

Current as of September 28, 2026Com. Code, § 7507Official source ↗Ask about this

Repealed and added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 254, Sec. 49. Effective January 1, 2007.

If a person negotiates or delivers a document of title for value, otherwise than as a mere intermediary under Section 7508, unless otherwise agreed, the transferor, in addition to any warranty made in selling or leasing the goods, warrants to its immediate purchaser only that:

(1) the document is genuine;

(2) the transferor does not have knowledge of any fact that would impair the document’s validity or worth; and

(3) the negotiation or delivery is rightful and fully effective with respect to the title to the document and the goods it represents.