37-2-23
Section 37-2-23 Bills of lading or receipts - Liability for false or second bill of lading
or receipt or for failure to endorse partial delivery. If any transportation company, not
having received things or property for carriage, shall issue or give a bill of lading, or
receipt, as if such things or property had been received, the transportation company engaged
in the business of keeping for shipment, or forwarding, shall issue a receipt for things or
property, not having received them; or if any of such parties shall give or issue a second
bill of lading, or receipt, the original being outstanding, not expressing in such second
bill of lading or receipt that it is a duplicate, or shall surrender such things or property
without receiving and cancelling the bill of lading or receipt issued therefor, or make partial
delivery, without endorsing such partial delivery on such bill of lading or receipt, except
as provided in Section 37-2-25, such transportation company is liable to any...
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37-2-21
Section 37-2-21 Bills of lading or receipts - When issued; contents; receipt for cotton in
bales; common-law liability not affected. (a) Every transportation company receiving property
for transportation, originating and terminating in this state, shall issue to the shipper
a receipt or bill of lading therefor in which shall be stated the class or classes of freight
shipped and the rate to the point of destination and aggregate charge made for the transportation
and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage or injury to such property
negligently caused by it or by any transportation company to which said property may be delivered,
or over whose lines such property may pass; and no contract, stipulation, receipt, rule or
regulation contained in said receipt or bill of lading, or otherwise, shall exempt such transportation
company from the liability hereby imposed; but nothing in this subsection shall deprive any
holder of such receipt or bill of lading of any...
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15-8-150
Section 15-8-150 Contents; sufficiency; use of analogous forms. The forms of indictment set
forth in this section in all cases in which they are applicable, are sufficient, and analogous
forms may be used in other cases. (1) CAPTION, COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION GENERALLY. The
State of Alabama,) Circuit court, ___ session, ___) 20___ The grand jury of said county charge
that, before the finding of this indictment, etc. (describing the offense as in the following
forms), against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. E.F.J.,District Attorney of
the ______ circuit. (2) ADVERTISING, ETC., UNREGISTERED SECURITIES. A. B. did, contrary to
law, and subsequent to the ____ day of ____, 20__, advertise (or otherwise describing the
unlawful act) in this state for the purpose of inducing or securing subscriptions to or sales
of the capital stock of the X. Y. company (or otherwise describing the security so advertised),
which said stock (or other security) had not then...
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37-2-22
Section 37-2-22 Bills of lading or receipts - Not given until property delivered to carrier;
duplicates. A transportation company engaged in the business of carriage, or of keeping for
shipment, or of forwarding things or property, must not give a receipt or bill of lading for
the things or property for carriage, or for keeping for shipment, or for forwarding unless
such things or property have been actually delivered to said company, or placed in its control;
and a second receipt or bill of lading must not be issued or given, the original being outstanding,
without writing across the face thereof the word "duplicate." (Code 1886, §1175;
Code 1896, §4219; Code 1907, §6132; Code 1923, §10492; Code 1940, T. 48, §134.)...
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37-2-25
Section 37-2-25 Bills of lading or receipts - Unauthorized sale or transfer of property prohibited.
A transportation company or other person engaged in the business of carriage or of keeping
for shipment, or of forwarding things or property, must not, otherwise than is authorized
by law or by the contract of delivery to him, make sale of things or property entrusted to
him; nor, without the assent in writing of the person to whom he may have given a receipt
or bill of lading, or of the legal holder of such receipt or bill of lading, encumber or transfer
the same; nor must he, otherwise than as may be authorized by the contract of delivery to
him, part with the control or possession of such things or property without the assent in
writing of the person to whom he may have given a receipt or bill of lading, or of the legal
holder of such receipt or bill of lading. (Code 1886, §1177; Code 1896, §4221; Code 1907,
§6134; Code 1923, §10494; Code 1940, T. 48, §136.)...
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7-7-102
Section 7-7-102 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) In this article, unless the context
otherwise requires: (1) "Bailee" means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill
of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver
them. (2) A "carrier" means a person that issues a bill of lading. (3) "Consignee"
means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery.
(4) "Consignor" means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which
the goods have been received for shipment. (5) "Delivery order" means a record that
contains an order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that
in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading. (6) "Good
faith" means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. (7) "Goods"
means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or
transportation. (8) "Issuer"...
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7-1-201
Section 7-1-201 General definitions. (a) [Reserved]. (b) Subject to additional definitions
contained in the subsequent articles of this title which are applicable to specific articles
or parts thereof, and unless the context otherwise requires, in this title: (1) "Action,"
in the sense of a judicial proceeding, includes recoupment, counterclaim, set-off, suit in
equity, and any other proceeding in which rights are determined. (2) "Aggrieved party"
means a party entitled to pursue a remedy. (3) "Agreement," as distinguished from
"contract," means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language
or inferred from other circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing,
or usage of trade as provided in Section 7-1-303. (4) "Bank" means a person engaged
in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit
union, and trust company. (5) "Bearer" means a person in possession of a negotiable
instrument, document of title, or...
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37-2-24
Section 37-2-24 Bills of lading or receipts - Delivery to cotton compress. A delivery of cotton
at or to a compress for the purpose of being compressed, at the instance or in the usual course
of business of a transportation company, or other person engaged in the business of carriage,
or of keeping for shipment, or of forwarding, may be taken and deemed as an actual delivery
to such transportation company or other person, and a receipt or bill of lading may be issued
or given therefor. (Code 1886, §1176; Code 1896, §4220; Code 1907, §6133; Code 1923, §10493;
Code 1940, T. 48, §135.)...
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7-7-302
Section 7-7-302 Through bills of lading and similar documents of title. (a) The issuer of a
through bill of lading, or other document of title embodying an undertaking to be performed
in part by a person acting as its agent or by a performing carrier, is liable to any person
entitled to recover on the bill or other document for any breach by the other person or the
performing carrier of its obligation under the bill or other document. However, to the extent
that the bill or other document 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 for breach by the other person or the performing carrier
may be varied by agreement of the parties. (b) If goods covered by a through bill of lading
or other document of title embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by a person other
than the issuer are received by that person, the person is subject, with...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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