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62A.7-506 - Delivery without indorsement: Right to compel indorsement.

Delivery without indorsement: Right to compel indorsement.

The transferee of a negotiable document of title has a specifically enforceable right to have his transferor supply any necessary indorsement but the transfer becomes a negotiation only as of the time the indorsement is supplied.

[1965 ex.s. c 157 § 7-506. Cf. former RCW sections: (i) RCW 22.04.440; 1913 c 99 § 43; RRS § 3629. (ii) RCW 63.04.360; 1925 ex.s. c 142 § 35; RRS § 5836-35. (iii) RCW 81.32.341; 1961 c 14 § 81.32.341; prior: 1915 c 159 § 34; RRS § 3680; formerly RCW 81.32.430.]