Exam 22: Legal Aspects of Supply Chain Management

The legal definition of a guest of a hotel requires that the person:

To be engaged in warehousing,an enterprise must have appropriate storage buildings.

Field warehousing is the storage of farm crops in the field where they have been grown.

Bob Brown entered the Hotel Lux to attend a conference being held within the hotel.Sam Smith arrived to attend the same conference,registered at the front desk,and obtained a room.Sally Jones also intended to participate in the conference and was in essence living at the hotel at the time.What relationship exists between the hotel and each of these individuals? What can be said of the hotel's obligations to each individual under these circumstances?

A person who attends a banquet given at a hotel is considered a guest for purposes of determining the liability of the hotelkeeper.

Contract clauses that limit a common carrier's liability are void as contrary to public policy.

The relationship of guest and hotelkeeper ends when the guest:

A warehouse receipt is not considered a document of title.

A common carrier transporting goods under a COD shipment is liable if it takes a check in payment and the check bounces.

In most states,statutes limit or provide a method of limiting the common law liability of a hotelkeeper.

What is not included in a common carrier's lien on goods that it transports?

Bills of lading for intrastate shipments are governed by the UCC,while those for interstate shipments are regulated by the Federal Bills of Lading Act.

A bill of lading will be negotiable if its terms are that the goods are to be delivered to "bearer" or to "the order of" a named person.

With respect to property expressly entrusted to a hotelkeeper's care,the hotelkeeper has a bailee's liability.

When a carrier accepts goods for land shipment,it ordinarily issues to the shipper a(n):

A bill of lading that consigns the goods "to bearer" is called a:

A hotelkeeper's lien on the baggage of a guest is terminated when:

A warehouser that holds itself out to serve the public generally without discrimination is called a(n):

A common carrier transporting goods under a COD shipment may:

Jeff purchased in good faith a warehouse receipt for 1,000 pairs of running shoes without notice of any defense to it,for value,and in the regular course of his business.Unknown to Jeff,the goods had been stolen from Jane and delivered to the warehouse that issued the receipt purchased by Jeff.Which of the following statements is true?