403.250. Definitions.
Definitions.
403.250. In sections 403.250 to 403.350, unless the contextotherwise requires:
(1) "Assignment" includes any written stock power, bondpower, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust or otherinstrument of transfer;
(2) "Claim of beneficial interest" includes a claim of anyinterest by a decedent's legatee, distributee, heir or creditor,a beneficiary under a trust, a ward, a beneficial owner of asecurity registered in the name of a nominee, or a minor owner ofa security registered in the name of a custodian, or a claim ofany similar interest, whether the claim is asserted by theclaimant or by a fiduciary or by any other authorized person onhis behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be inbreach of fiduciary duties;
(3) "Corporation" means a private or public corporation,association or trust issuing a security;
(4) "Fiduciary" means an executor, administrator, trustee,guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian ornominee;
(5) "Person" includes an individual, a corporation,government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust,estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more personshaving a joint or common interest, or any other legal orcommercial entity;
(6) "Security" includes any share of stock, bond, debenture,note or other security issued by a corporation which isregistered as to ownership on the books of the corporation;
(7) "Transfer" means a change on the books of a corporationin the registered ownership of a security;
(8) "Transfer agent" means a person employed or authorizedby a corporation to transfer securities issued by thecorporation.
(L. 1959 S.B. 241 § 1)