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Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 8. · Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 3. TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATED AND UNCERTIFICATED SECURITIES

11-8-304. Indorsement.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    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.#

  2. (b)

    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.#

  3. (c)

    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.#

  4. (d)

    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.#

  5. (e)

    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.#

  6. (f)

    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.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 11-8-304, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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