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Terms Used In 13 Guam Code Ann. § 3110

  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
) An instrument is payable to order when by its terms it is payable to the order or assigns of any person therein specified with reasonable certainty, or to him or his order, or when it is conspicuously designated
on its face as Aexchange@ or the like and names a payee. It may be
payable to the order of
(a) The maker or drawer; or

(b) The drawee; or
(c) A payee who is not maker, drawer or drawee; or

(d) Two or more payees together or in the alternative; or

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13 Guam Code Ann. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
DIV. 3 COMMERCIAL PAPER

(e) An estate, trust or fund, in which case it is payable to the order of the representative of such estate, trust or fund or his successors; or

(f) An office, or an officer by his title as such in which case it is payable to the principal but the incumbent of the office or his successors may act as if he or they were the holder; or

(g) A partnership or unincorporated association, in which case it is payable to the partnership or association and may be indorsed or transferred by any person thereto authorized.

(2) An instrument not payable to order is not made so payable by such words as Apayable upon return of this instrument properly indorsed@.

(3) An instrument made payable both to order and to bearer is payable to order unless the bearer words are handwritten or typewritten.