This article shall be known and may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code - Documents of Title.

History: 1953 Comp., § 50A-7-101, enacted by Laws 1961, ch. 96, § 7-101.

OFFICIAL COMMENTS

UCC Official Comments by ALI & the NCCUSL. Reproduced with permission of the PEB for the UCC. All rights reserved.

Prior Uniform Statutory Provision. — Former Section 7-101 [55-7-101 NMSA 1978].

Changes. — Revised for style only.

This Article is a revision of the 1962 Official Text with Comments as amended since 1962. The 1962 Official Text was a consolidation and revision of the Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act and the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and embraced the provisions of the Uniform Sales Act relating to negotiation of documents of title.

This Article does not contain the substantive criminal provisions found in the Uniform Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading Acts. These criminal provisions are inappropriate to a Commercial Code, and for the most part duplicate portions of the ordinary criminal law relating to frauds. This revision deletes the former Section 7-105 [55-7-105 NMSA 1978] that provided that courts could apply a rule from Parts 2 and 3 by analogy to a situation not explicitly covered in the provisions on warehouse receipts or bills of lading when it was appropriate. This is, of course, an unexceptional proposition and need not be stated explicitly in the statute. Thus former Section 7-105 has been deleted. Whether applying a rule by analogy to a situation is appropriate depends upon the facts of each case.

The Article does not attempt to define the tort liability of bailees, except to hold certain classes of bailees to a minimum standard of reasonable care. For important classes of bailees, liabilities in case of loss, damages or destruction, as well as other legal questions associated with particular documents of title, are governed by federal statutes, international treaties, and in some cases regulatory state laws, which supersede the provisions of this Article in case of inconsistency. See Section 7-103 [55-7-103 NMSA 1978].

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 15A Am. Jur. 2d Commercial Code § 1 et seq.; 78 Am. Jur. 2d Warehouses § 1 et seq.

Construction and effect of UCC, art. 7, dealing with warehouse receipts, bills of lading and other documents of title, 21 A.L.R.3d 1339.

13 C.J.S. Carriers §§ 446, 447; 80 C.J.S. Shipping §§ 111 to 114; 93 C.J.S. Warehousemen and Safe Depositaries § 1 et seq.