North Dakota Code § 41-07-40

(7-602) Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of
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title.
Unless a document of title was originally issued upon delivery of the goods by a person that 
did not have power to dispose of them, a lien does not attach by virtue of any judicial process to 
goods in the possession of a bailee for which a negotiable document of title is outstanding 
unless possession or control of the document is first surrendered to the bailee or the 
document's negotiation is enjoined. The bailee may not be compelled to deliver the goods 
pursuant to process until possession or control of the document is surrendered to the bailee or 
to the court. A purchaser of the document for value without notice of the process or injunction 
takes free of the lien imposed by judicial process.

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