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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 46. Uniform Commercial Code » Article 7. Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title » §46-7-504. Rights Acquired in Absence of Due Negotiation; Effect of Diversion; Stoppage of Delivery

(a) A transferee of a document of title, whether negotiable or nonnegotiable, to which the document has been delivered but not duly negotiated, acquires the title and rights that its transferor had or had actual authority to convey.

(b) In the case of a transfer of a nonnegotiable document of title, until but not after the bailee receives notice of the transfer, the rights of the transferee may be defeated:

(1) By those creditors of the transferor which could treat the transfer as void under section 2-402 or 2A-308;