17-4903. Definitions.
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17-4903. Definitions. In this act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)"Assignment" includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust, or other instrument of transfer.
(b)"Claim of beneficial interest" includes a claim of any interest by a decedent's legatee, distributee, heir, or creditor, a beneficiary under a trust, a conservatee, a beneficial owner of a security registered in the name of a nominee, or a minor owner of a security registered in the name of a custodian, or a claim of any similar interest, whether the claim is asserted by the claimant or by a fiduciary or by any other authorized person on his behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be a breach of fiduciary duties.
(c)"Corporation" means a private or public corporation, association or trust issuing a security.
(d)"Fiduciary" means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian, nominee, receiver, assignee for benefit of creditors, partner, agent, officer of a corporation, public or private, public officer, or any other person acting in a fiduciary capacity for any person, trust or estate.
(e)"Person" includes an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(f)"Security" includes any share of stock, bond, debenture, note, or other security issued by a corporation which is registered as to ownership on the books of the corporation.
(g)"Transfer" means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security.
(h)"Transfer agent" means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.