California Commercial Code 8208 – (a) A person signing a security certificate as authenticating …
(a) A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, warrants all of the following to a purchaser for value of the certificated security, if the purchaser is without notice of a particular defect:
(1) The certificate is genuine.
Terms Used In California Commercial Code 8208
- Genuine: means free of forgery or counterfeiting. See California Commercial Code 1201
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See California Commercial Code 1201
- Purchaser: means a person that takes by purchase. See California Commercial Code 1201
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) The person’s own participation in the issue of the security is within the person’s capacity and within the scope of the authority received by the person from the issuer.
(3) The person has reasonable grounds to believe that the certificated security is in the form and within the amount the issuer is authorized to issue.
(b) Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subdivision (a) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 497, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1997.)