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...Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse's liability [UCC 7-204] (A) A warehouse is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by its failure to exercise care with regard to the goods that a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise agreed, the warehouse is not liable for damages that could not have been avoided by the exercise of that ca...

...Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases [UCC 7-205] A buyer in ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouse that is also in the business of buying and selling such goods takes the goods free of any claim under a warehouse receipt even if the receipt is negotiable and has been duly negotiated.

...Lien of warehouse [UCC 7-209] (A) A warehouse has a lien against the bailor on the goods covered by a warehouse receipt or storage agreement or on the proceeds thereof in its possession for charges for storage or transportation, including demurrage and terminal charges, insurance, labor, or other charges, present or future, in relation to the goods, and for expenses necessary for preservation of the goods or ...

...Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability [UCC 7-309] (A) A carrier that issues a bill of lading, whether negotiable or nonnegotiable, shall exercise the degree of care in relation to the goods which a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. This division does not affect any statute, regulation, or rule of law that imposes liability upon a common carrier for dam...

...Rights acquired by due negotiation [UCC 7-502] (A) Subject to sections 1307.205 and 1307.503 of the Revised Code, a holder to which a negotiable document of title has been duly negotiated acquires thereby: (1) title to the document; (2) title to the goods; (3) all rights accruing under the law of agency or estoppel, including rights to goods delivered to the bailee after the document was issued; and (4) th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security acquires all rights in the security that the transferor had or had power to transfer. (B) A purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest purchased. (C) A purchaser of a certificated security who as a previous holder had notice of an adverse claim...

...(A) A person who originates an entitlement order to a securities intermediary warrants to the securities intermediary that: (1) The entitlement order is made by an appropriate person, or if the entitlement order is by an agent, the agent has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (2) There is no adverse claim to the security entitlement. (B) A person who delivers a security certificate to...

...(A) An indorsement may be in blank or special. An indorsement in blank includes an indorsement to bearer. A special indorsement specifies to whom a security is to be transferred or who has power to transfer it. A holder may convert a blank indorsement to a special indorsement. (B) An indorsement purporting to be only of part of a security certificate representing units intended by the issuer to be separately transfe...

...(A) A person who guarantees a signature of an indorser of a security certificate warrants that at the time of signing: (1) The signature was genuine; (2) The signer was an appropriate person to indorse, or if the signature is by an agent, the agent had actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (3) The signer had legal capacity to sign. (B) A person who guarantees a signature of the originat...

...(A) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security may be reached by a creditor only by actual seizure of the security certificate by the officer making the attachment or levy, except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section. However, a certificated security for which the certificate has been surrendered to the issuer may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the issuer. (B) The interest o...

...(A) To the extent necessary for a securities intermediary to satisfy all security entitlements with respect to a particular financial asset, all interests in that financial asset held by the securities intermediary are held by the securities intermediary for the entitlement holders, are not property of the securities intermediary, and are not subject to claims of creditors of the securities intermediary, except as ot...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Purchase-money collateral" means goods or software that secures a purchase-money obligation incurred with respect to that collateral; and (2) "Purchase-money obligation" means an obligation of an obligor incurred as all or part of the price of the collateral or for value given to enable the debtor to acquire rights in or the use of the collateral if the value is in fact so used. (...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C), (D), and (E) of this section, any description of personal or real property is sufficient whether or not it is specific if it reasonably identifies what is described. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by: (1) Specific listing; (2) Category; (3) E...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a security agreement may create or provide for a security interest in after-acquired collateral. (B) A security interest does not attach under a term constituting an after-acquired property clause to: (1) Consumer goods other than accessions when given as additional security unless the debtor acquires rights in them within ten days after the secured party ...

...(A) A security interest may be created in an accession and continues in collateral that becomes an accession. (B) If a security interest is perfected when the collateral becomes an accession, the security interest remains perfected in the collateral. (C) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, the other provisions of sections 1309.301 to 1309.342 of the Revised Code determine the priority of a...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a bank with which a deposit account is maintained may exercise any right of recoupment or set-off against a secured party that holds a security interest in the deposit account. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, the application of this chapter to a security interest in a deposit account does not affect a right of recoupm...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, a term in a lease agreement is not effective to the extent that it: (1) Prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of a party to the lease to the assignment or transfer of, or the creation, attachment, perfection, or enforcement of a security interest in, an interest of a party under the lease contract or in the lessor's residual interest in the go...

...(A) A term in a letter of credit or a rule of law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice applicable to the letter of credit that prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of an applicant, issuer, or nominated person to a beneficiary's assignment of or creation of a security interest in a letter-of-credit right is not effective to the extent that the term or rule or law, statute, regulation, custom, or practice...

...(A) A person may file in the filing office an information statement with respect to a record indexed there under the person's name if the person believes that the record is inaccurate or was wrongfully filed. (B) An information statement under division (A) of this section must: (1) Identify the record to which it relates by: (a) The file number assigned to the initial financing statement to which the record ...

...(A) As used in this section, "notification date" means the earlier of the date on which: (1) A secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor an authenticated notification of disposition. or (2) The debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification. (B) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, a secured party who disposes of collateral under section 1309.610 of the Revised Co...

...(A) A secured party who desires to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to: (1) Any person from whom the secured party has received, before the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral; (2) Any other secured party or lienholder who, ten days before the debtor consented to the accept...

...(A) The benefit of a supplier's promises to the lessor under a supply contract and of all express or implied warranties, including those of any third party provided in connection with or as part of the supply contract, extends to the lessee to the extent of the lessee's leasehold interest under a finance lease related to the supply contract but is subject to the terms of the warranty and of the supply contract and al...

...(A) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit a warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other, but, subject to the provisions of section 1310.09 of the Revised Code on parol or extrinsic evidence, negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that the construction is unreasonable. (B) Subject to division (C) ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 1310.34 of the Revised Code, a creditor of a lessee takes subject to the lease contract. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section and in sections 1310.34 and 1310.36 of the Revised Code, a creditor of a lessor takes subject to the lease contract unless the creditor holds a lien that attached to the goods before the lease contract became enforceab...

...(A) A creditor of a lessor in possession of goods subject to a lease contract may treat the lease contract as void if as against the creditor retention of possession by the lessor is fraudulent under any section of the Revised Code, any statute of another jurisdiction, or any rule of law, but retention of possession in good faith and current course of trade by the lessor for a commercially reasonable time after the l...