Missouri Laws 469.240 – Definitions
1. In sections 469.240 to 469.350 unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
(1) “Bank” includes any person or association of persons, whether incorporated or not, carrying on the business of banking;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 469.240
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- 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.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) “Fiduciary” includes a trustee under any trust, expressed, implied, resulting or constructive, executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, curator, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, assignee for the 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;
(3) “Person” includes a corporation, partnership, or other association, or two or more persons having a joint or common interest;
(4) “Principal” includes any person to whom a fiduciary as such owes an obligation.
2. A thing is done “in good faith” within the meaning of sections 469.240 to 469.350, when it is in fact done honestly, whether it be done negligently or not.