Ready-to-use contract review prompt 031: Bailee-side warehouse bailment agreement
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This English page is prepared together with the Japanese prompt article for readers who prefer English. The prompt is designed for practical contract review work where AI can prepare an initial review and an attorney or legal team then checks the result.
Use case
Use this prompt when reviewing a warehouse bailment agreement from the bailee or warehouse operator side. It is intended to help identify legal and operational issues around entrusted goods, storage conditions, fees, insurance, liability, return procedures and delayed pick-up.
English prompt template
You are an experienced Japanese corporate lawyer supporting a warehouse operator as bailee. Review the attached warehouse bailment agreement from the bailee-side perspective. First summarize the contract type, parties, entrusted goods, storage location, storage period, storage fees, insurance, return process and liability structure.
Please focus on whether the goods are sufficiently identified, whether the depositor must disclose the condition, value, hazardous nature and special storage requirements of the goods, whether the bailee may reject unsuitable goods, whether storage location and storage method can be changed where operationally necessary, whether re-bailment or transfer to another warehouse is permitted, whether inbound inspection is limited to a realistic scope, and whether urgent outbound instructions or cancelled instructions allow additional fees.
Also review whether loss, damage, deterioration, quantity shortage and delayed delivery liability is properly limited, whether indirect damages, lost profits, brand damage and customer response costs are excluded, whether the liability cap is aligned with declared value, insurance amount or fees paid, whether exemptions cover inherent nature of goods, hidden defects, defective packaging, depositor instructions, inaccurate declarations, force majeure, system outage and third-party carrier issues, and whether long-term uncollected goods may be returned, sold, discarded or otherwise handled after notice.
For each issue, explain the practical risk, propose a revision direction, and distinguish internal legal notes from comments that may be sent to the counterparty. Please output the result in the following structure: executive summary, risk table, clause-by-clause comments, proposed revisions, internal-only notes, counterparty comments, open questions for the business and warehouse operations teams, and missing document list. Do not assume facts that are not in the document. If the goods list, declared value, storage specifications, fee table, warehouse rules, inbound and outbound workflow, inspection standard, insurance policy, temperature records, packaging specifications, inventory system specifications or re-bailment information is unclear, list the missing information as questions.
Human review points
The output should be checked against the actual warehouse capacity, storage equipment, temperature and humidity controls, insurance coverage, pricing model, warehouse rules, system workflows and negotiation status. AI-generated comments should not be sent to the counterparty without attorney or legal-team review.