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title: O.C.G.A. § 11-8-116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.
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# O.C.G.A. § 11-8-116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.

A securities intermediary that receives a financial asset and establishes a security entitlement to the financial asset in favor of an entitlement holder is a purchaser for value of the financial asset. A securities intermediary that acquires a security entitlement to a financial asset from another securities intermediary acquires the security entitlement for value if the securities intermediary acquiring the security entitlement establishes a security entitlement to the financial asset in favor of an entitlement holder.

## History

Code 1981, § 11-8-116, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 1.