# Ohio Rev. Code § 1307.102: Definitions and index of definitions - UCC 7-102 > Ohio · Statutes · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_OH_T13_C1307_S1307.102 ## Section - **Citation:** Ohio Rev. Code § 1307.102 - **Heading:** Definitions and index of definitions - UCC 7-102 - **Jurisdiction:** Ohio - **Kind:** Statutes - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** Ohio Revised Code / Title 13 / Chapter 1307 / § 1307.102 ## Text June 29, 2011 House Bill 9 - 129th General Assembly Definitions and index of definitions [UCC 7-102] (A) As used in sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Bailee" means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of the title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. (2) "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" has the same meaning as in section 1301.201 of the Revised Code. (7) "Goods" means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation. (8) "Issuer" means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. The term includes a person for which an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, even if the issuer did not receive any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions. (9) "Person entitled under the document" means the holder, in the case of a negotiable document of title, or the person to which delivery of the goods is to be made by the terms of, or pursuant to instructions in a record under, a nonnegotiable document of title. (10) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (11) "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record: (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or (b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process. (12) "Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. (13) "Warehouse" means a person engaged in the business of storing of goods for hire. (B) As used in sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code, "contract for sale" and "receipt" of goods have the meaning set forth in section 1302.01 of the Revised Code, and "lessee in the ordinary course of business" has the meaning set forth in section 1310.01 of the Revised Code. (C) In addition, Chapter 1301. of the Revised Code contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter. ## Nearby sections - [Ohio Rev. Code § 1307.101 § 1307.101. Short title - UCC 7-101](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_OH_T13_C1307_S1307.101.md) - [Ohio Rev. Code § 1307.102 § 1307.102. Definitions and index of definitions - UCC 7-102](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_OH_T13_C1307_S1307.102.md) - [Ohio Rev. 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