The obligations imposed by this chapter on an issuer apply to a document of title even if (1) the document does not comply with the requirements of this chapter or another statute, a regulation, or another rule of law regarding its issuance, form, or content; (2) the issuer violated laws regulating the conduct of the issuer's business; (3) the goods covered by the document were owned by the bailee when the document was issued; or (4) the person issuing the document is not a warehouse but the document purports to be a warehouse receipt.
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