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.
Terms Used In Utah Code 70A-8-304
Adverse claim: means a claim that a claimant has a property interest in a financial asset and that it is a violation of the rights of the claimant for another person to hold, transfer, or deal with the financial asset. See Utah Code 70A-8-101
Indorsement: means a signature that alone or accompanied by other words is made on a security certificate in registered form or on a separate document for the purpose of assigning, transferring, or redeeming the security or granting a power to assign, transfer, or redeem it. See Utah Code 70A-8-101
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.
Security: except as otherwise provided in Section 70A-8-102, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation, or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer that:
(i)
is represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form, or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer;
(ii)
is one of a class or series or by its terms is divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests, or obligations; and
(iii)
(A)
is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or securities markets; or
(B)
is a medium for investment and by its terms expressly provides that it is a security governed by this chapter. See Utah Code 70A-8-101
Security certificate: means a certificate representing a security. See Utah Code 70A-8-101
(2)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Unless otherwise agreed, a person making an indorsement assumes only the obligations provided in Section 70A-8-107 and not an obligation that the security will be honored by the issuer.
Repealed and Re-enacted by Chapter 204, 1996 General Session
