Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 7.503
DOCUMENT OF TITLE TO GOODS DEFEATED IN CERTAIN CASES
Texas · Texas Business & Commerce Code · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 7.503, DOCUMENT OF TITLE TO GOODS DEFEATED IN CERTAIN CASES, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/630154
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:630154@1- SHA-256
6219d67ceaa82f82adaa91b80f3c642cda8ce436e40dd8ac7c0787a804234f04
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
(a) A document of title confers no right in goods against a person that before issuance of the document had a legal interest or a perfected security interest in the goods and that did not:
(1) deliver or entrust the goods or any document covering the goods to the bailor or the bailor's nominee with actual or apparent authority to ship, store, or sell; with power to obtain delivery under Section 7.403; or with power of disposition under Section 2.403, 2A.304(a)(2), 2A.305(a)(2), or 9.320 or other statute or rule of law; or
(2) acquiesce in the procurement by the bailor or its nominee of any document.
(b) Title to goods based upon an unaccepted delivery order is subject to the rights of any person to which a negotiable warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering the goods has been duly negotiated. That title may be defeated under Section 7.504 to the same extent as the rights of the issuer or a transferee from the issuer.
(c) Title to goods based upon a bill of lading issued to a freight forwarder is subject to the rights of any person to which a bill issued by the freight forwarder is duly negotiated. However, delivery by the carrier in accordance with Subchapter D pursuant to its own bill of lading discharges the carrier's obligation to deliver.