Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer

Va. Code Ann. § 8.7-401, under Part 4. Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations..

Va. Code Ann. § 8.7-401

The obligations imposed by this title on an issuer apply to a document even if:

(a) the document may not comply with the requirements of this title or of any other law or regulation regarding its issue, form or content; or

(b) the issuer may have violated laws regulating the conduct of his business; or

(c) the goods covered by the document were owned by the bailee at the time the document was issued; or

(d) the person issuing the document does not come within the definition of warehouseman if it purports to be a warehouse receipt.