Indorsement
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Law
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Georgia Code
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Commercial Code
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Investment Securities
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Transfer of Certificated and Uncertificated Securities
- Indorsement
- An indorsement may be in blank or special. An indorsement in blank includes an indorsement to bearer. A special indorsement specifies to whom a security is to be transferred or who has power to transfer it. A holder may convert a blank indorsement to a special indorsement.
- An indorsement purporting to be only of part of a security certificate representing units intended by the issuer to be separately transferable is effective to the extent of the indorsement.
- An indorsement, whether special or in blank, does not constitute a transfer until delivery of the certificate on which it appears or, if the indorsement is on a separate document, until delivery of both the document and the certificate.
- If a security certificate in registered form has been delivered to a purchaser without a necessary indorsement, the purchaser may become a protected purchaser only when the indorsement is supplied. However, against a transferor, a transfer is complete upon delivery and the purchaser has a specifically enforceable right to have any necessary indorsement supplied.
- An indorsement of a security certificate in bearer form may give notice of an adverse claim to the certificate, but it does not otherwise affect a right to registration that the holder possesses.
- Unless otherwise agreed, a person making an indorsement assumes only the obligations provided in Code Section 11-8-108 and not an obligation that the security will be honored by the issuer.
(Code 1981, §11-8-304, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Commercial Code, § 106 et seq.
C.J.S. - 18 C.J.S., Corporations, §§ 229, 276. 19 C.J.S., Corporations, § 670. 64A C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1703. 81A C.J.S., States, § 186.
U.L.A. - Uniform Commercial Code (U.L.A.) § 8-304.
ALR.
- Rights of owner and bona fide purchaser of lost or stolen stock certificates, 52 A.L.R. 947.
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