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HRS §490:2-505

What it means when a seller ships goods with a bill of lading

This section explains what happens when a seller ships goods and uses a bill of lading to keep a security interest in them. It says when a bill of lading gives the seller a security interest and when it does not. It also says that if the seller's shipment violates the contract, the buyer's rights are not hurt.

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The statute, as written — Seller's shipment under reservation

(1) Where the seller has identified goods to the contract by or before shipment: (a) The seller's procurement of a negotiable bill of lading to the seller's own order or otherwise reserves in the seller a security interest in the goods. The seller's procurement of the bill to the order of a financing agency or of the buyer indicates in addition only the seller's expectation of transferring that interest to the person named. (b) A nonnegotiable bill of lading to the seller or the seller's nominee reserves possession of the goods as security but except in a case of conditional delivery (subsection (2) of section 490:2-507) a nonnegotiable bill of lading naming the buyer as consignee reserves no security interest even though the seller retains possession or control of the bill of lading. (2) When shipment by the seller with reservation of a security interest is in violation of the contract for sale it constitutes an improper contract for transportation within the preceding section but impairs neither the rights given to the buyer by shipment and identification of the goods to the contract nor the seller's powers as a holder of a negotiable document of title.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

Sections this one refers to

§490:2-507 When the seller offers goods, the buyer must accept and pay

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