Vermont § 102 - § 7—102.

§ 102. § 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) “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) “Goods” means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract
  for storage or transportation. (7) “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. (8) “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. (9) [Reserved.] (10) “Shipper” means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. (11) “Warehouse” means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. (b) Definitions in other articles applying to this article and the sections in which they
  appear are: (1) “Contract for sale,” section 2—106. (2) “Lessee in the ordinary course of business,” section 2A—103. (3) “Receipt” of goods, section 2—103. (c) In addition, Article 1 of this title contains general definitions and principles of
  construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article. (Added 2015, No. 51, § B.3, eff. June 3, 2015; amended 2025, No. 17, § 7, eff. July 1, 2025.)