Storage contract with flags on released value, the claims window and the lien, no face

Warehousing Agreement Review Tool: Liability Flags on the Storage Contract

A warehouse or depositor draft arrives as a PDF. The same file returns flags on released value, claims windows and liens.

October 5, 2026•16 min read•document type•Checkory

A warehouse or depositor draft arrives as a PDF or DOCX. You cannot see, on that file, which sentence names the released value or other liability limit, which sentence sets the claims window, and which sentence creates the lien. Checkory is a warehousing agreement review tool. Upload the warehouse or depositor terms and get the same file back with flags on released value, claims windows and liens, plus a short explanation and cites.

A cap, a time bar or a lien that stays unmarked on the file is the loss. High points go to a solicitor with the marked file before the goods stay in store. The marks stay on the pdf, on the clause that creates the risk. This page reads a storage contract. A fulfilment pack and a credits how-to are other papers.

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Warehouse or depositor terms in one upload

Confirm the file is warehouse or depositor terms: storage, a limit or released-value sentence, a claims window, and a lien. In practice the reader holds the pdf and still cannot point at those three sentences. For example, the rate may sit on a quote while the limit sits further down the clause. A fulfilment master agreement and a freight-forwarding draft are different documents and are not written here.

The same file comes back with flags

You upload the PDF or DOCX. That file comes back with the three sentences marked, a short explanation, and a pointer where a provision of England and Wales may apply. A detached score is not the object. The useful object is the annotated storage contract, so you and a solicitor can read the paragraph around the clause. Start at Analyse a contract.

“The Company's quoted rates are based on the released value of the cargo and do not include cargo insurance. Nippon Express USA, Warehousing Standard Terms and Conditions, March 2022, section 7.2. Section 7.4(i) of that United States draft limits liability for loss or damage to the least of repair cost, landed cost, and 50 cents per pound, not to exceed $5,000 per occurrence, unless increased in writing. That draft is not an England and Wales tariff. UKWA Ltd Contract Conditions for Warehousing and Logistics (2024), condition 3.5.4, fixes the Limit at £100 sterling per tonne unless a higher Limit is fixed. A silent draft does not receive either number, and the two figures are not converted into each other.”

Liability, claims, exit and accessorials on the marked storage contract.

Row on the file	What the named text says	What you do with the mark
Liability	Released value or a per-tonne limit. UKWA 2024 condition 3.5.4: £100 sterling per tonne unless a higher Limit is fixed. Nippon Express March 2022 section 7.4(i): 50 cents per pound, not to exceed $5,000 per occurrence, on that United States draft.	Flag the sentence on the file. A silent draft is not filled with either figure.
Claims	UKWA 2024 condition 3.7.1: written notice within 10 days and detail within 21 days. Condition 3.7.2: proceedings issued and served within 9 months. Nippon Express March 2022: 60 days and nine months on that United States draft.	Flag the window the file states. A silent draft is not filled with those clocks.
Exit	UKWA 2024 condition 7: removal within 14 days, or 3 days if perishable; 14 days to pay before a sale notice that is only about non-payment; the notice does not by itself end the contract. Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977, Schedule 1, paragraph 6(3): not less than three months where money was already due.	Mark the lien and the exit separately. The 14 days are not the three months.
Accessorials	Charges beyond the storage rate. UKWA 2024 condition 6.2: demurrage after more than 60 minutes. Condition 6.1: at least 7 days notice for fuel and 21 days otherwise. Nippon Express March 2022 section 5.3: charges beyond ordinary receiving, placing and returning.	Flag that extra-charge sentence. No price per pallet is set.

Upload warehousing agreement

Drop the warehouse or depositor terms

Use the PDF or DOCX you were sent. Confirm it is storage of goods, with a liability limit or released-value sentence, a claims window, and a lien.

Read flags on that same file

Walk the released-value or other limit sentence, the claims-window sentence, and the lien sentence. The marks stay on the clause in the pdf you uploaded.

Analyse a contract at /document-analysis

The path is /document-analysis and the label is Analyse a contract. Take a cap, a time bar or a lien you cannot reconcile with the goods to a solicitor with the marked file.

A field extract is not this upload

A list of rates and fields pulled off the file is a different result. A blank depositor form is a different result. This upload returns the storage file you already hold, with the three sentences marked.

Warehouse or depositor terms

Pros

✓The released-value or other limit, the claims window and the lien sit on this storage draft.
✓UKWA 2024 condition 1.3: storage responsibility runs from acceptance into store until tender for collection, or the removal grounds in conditions 2.2, 7.1 or 7.2.

Cons

✗A cap, a time bar or a general lien you cannot reconcile with the goods goes to a solicitor with the marked file.
✗This comparison stays on this page and does not open a fulfilment card.

3PL fulfilment pack

Pros

✓A fulfilment pack is a different document: a master agreement, a statement of work and a rate card.
✓UKWA and Enterprise Ireland, Guide to Warehousing in the UK, March 2022, section 4.6, separates pick-and-pack rates from storage per pallet or per cubic metre. No pallet price is copied.

Cons

✗Fulfilment rates and wind-down stay off this page.
✗Frans Maas [2004] EWHC 1502 (Comm), 30 June 2004, treated true storage and a transit movement as candidates for different terms. A forwarding paper is not this upload.

Released value on the storage contract

Released value wording on the draft

The quote is Nippon Express USA, March 2022, section 7.2, and the section 7.4(i) cap on that United States draft: 50 cents per pound, not to exceed $5,000 per occurrence. The PDF, read 5 October 2026, is the March 2022 warehousing terms. That draft is not an England and Wales tariff. A silent draft does not receive the 50-cent sentence.

The figure comes from the uploaded clause

If the file says released value, quote the file. If it is silent, the mark is the silence. The association text, read 5 October 2026, is UKWA 2024 conditions. The customer must insure the goods; the company does not. Condition 3.5.4 is £100 sterling per tonne unless a higher Limit is fixed. Those pounds stay on that text.

High points go to a solicitor

Condition 3.5.1 allows a higher per-tonne Limit in writing. Until the day after the Date in condition 13, condition 3.5.4 applies. Condition 3.5.5 is £1,000 per incident where the loss is not to the goods, and it does not limit death or personal injury from the company's own act. A cap you cannot reconcile with the goods goes to a solicitor. This pass does not decide reasonableness.

A released-value sentence highlighted on a warehouse storage contract, no face — The released-value sentence on the uploaded storage contract is the line to read against the goods in store.

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The storage quote is not the three sentences

The typical mistake is to stop because their standard warehouse terms always apply, the storage rate is already on the quote, and a broker or an extract already looked at liability. The rate on the quote does not show which sentence names the released value, which sentence sets the claims window, and which sentence creates the lien.

See the marks on the storage contract

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Liability, claims, exit and accessorials

Liability

Condition 1.1 requires reasonable skill and care. Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, section 13 implies that care, and section 16 lets an express term vary it, subject to the 1977 Act. Condition 3.3 caps negligence or wilful default at the Limit. Condition 3.4 excludes lost profit and indirect loss. A cap is not automatic.

Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, section 2 bars excluding death or personal injury from negligence. Other loss needs reasonableness. Consumers sit under the 2015 Act; this page is a business storage contract. Section 3 is the standard-terms rule. Section 11 is the fair-and-reasonable test, with resources and insurance in section 11(4) and the burden in section 11(5). This pass does not apply the test.

Frans Maas [2004] EWHC 1502 (Comm), 30 June 2004, read an earlier £100-per-tonne clause that did not exclude neglect and did not limit the company's own fraud. That is not the 2024 text. The quantum is omitted. Uniform Commercial Code section 7-204 is United States text: a care duty, a limit that fails on conversion to the warehouse's own use, and no day count. It is not English law.

Claims windows

The table holds the UKWA clocks: 10 and 21 days, and 9 months. Non-delivery runs from the second working day after the expected date. A silent draft stays silent. Nippon Express, 60 days and nine months, is that United States draft. A contractual time bar, 19 September 2026, is a different article. This window is not an uptime credit.

Exit

Condition 6.5 is a general and particular lien for sums on any account. It survives a transfer, storage is still charged, and the goods are not insured. Condition 5 keeps it if the account transfers. Uniform Commercial Code section 7-209 is a United States lien, not the England and Wales mark.

Condition 7 is the removal and sale notice in the table. Sections 12 and 13 of the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977 are a statutory sale, not that lien. Section 12(4) gives no title against an owner who was not the bailor. Schedule 1, paragraph 6(3) requires three months where money was already due. Paragraph 6(4) requires registered or recorded delivery. Paragraph 7(1) bars a sale while the sum is disputed. Fourteen days are not those three months.

Nick Clarke, September 2024, says put the lien in the quote and the contract before services start. Letterhead may fail. Insolvency and third-party goods need specialist advice. The note is not a sale guide.

Accessorials

Flag a charge the headline rate hides. Condition 6.1 is 7 days' notice for fuel and 21 days otherwise. Condition 6.2 is demurrage after 60 minutes. Nippon Express section 5.3 bills work beyond ordinary handling. No pallet price is stated.