2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 078 - Investment Securities
Section 78.1070 - Whether indorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective.


(a) With respect to an indorsement, the person specified by a security certificate or by an effective special indorsement to be entitled to the security;
(b) With respect to an instruction, the registered owner of an uncertificated security;
(c) With respect to an entitlement order, the entitlement holder;
(d) If the person designated in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection is deceased, the designated person’s successor taking under other law, or the designated person’s personal representative acting for the estate of the decedent; or
(e) If the person designated in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection lacks capacity, the designated person’s guardian, conservator or other similar representative who has power under other law to transfer the security or financial asset.
(2) An indorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective if:
(a) It is made by the appropriate person;
(b) It is made by a person who has power under the law of agency to transfer the security or financial asset on behalf of the appropriate person, including, in the case of an instruction or entitlement order, a person who has control under ORS 78.1060 (3)(b) or (4)(b); or
(c) The appropriate person has ratified it or is otherwise precluded from asserting its ineffectiveness.
(3) An indorsement, instruction or entitlement order made by a representative is effective even if:
(a) The representative has failed to comply with a controlling instrument or with the law of the state having jurisdiction of the representative relationship, including any law requiring the representative to obtain court approval of the transaction; or
(b) The representative’s action in making the indorsement, instruction or entitlement order or using the proceeds of the transaction is otherwise a breach of duty.
(4) If a security is registered in the name of or specially indorsed to a person described as a representative, or if a securities account is maintained in the name of a person described as a representative, an indorsement, instruction or entitlement order made by the person is effective even though the person is no longer serving in the described capacity.
(5) Effectiveness of an indorsement, instruction or entitlement order is determined as of the date the indorsement, instruction or entitlement order is made, and an indorsement, instruction or entitlement order does not become ineffective by reason of any later change of circumstances. [1985 c.676 §78.1070; 1995 c.328 §7]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code

Chapter 078 - Investment Securities

Section 78.1020 - Definitions and index of definitions.

Section 78.1030 - Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets.

Section 78.1040 - Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.

Section 78.1050 - Notice of adverse claim.

Section 78.1060 - Control.

Section 78.1070 - Whether indorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective.

Section 78.1080 - Warranties in direct holding.

Section 78.1090 - Warranties in indirect holding.

Section 78.1100 - Applicability; choice of law.

Section 78.1110 - Clearing corporation rules.

Section 78.1120 - Creditor’s legal process.

Section 78.1140 - Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.

Section 78.1150 - Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.

Section 78.2010 - "Issuer."

Section 78.2020 - Terms of security; issuer’s responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.

Section 78.2030 - Staleness as notice of defects or defenses.

Section 78.2040 - Effect of issuer’s restriction on transfer.

Section 78.2050 - Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.

Section 78.2060 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.

Section 78.2070 - Rights of issuer with respect to registered owners.

Section 78.2080 - Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent.

Section 78.2100 - Overissue.

Section 78.3010 - Delivery.

Section 78.3020 - Rights of purchaser.

Section 78.3030 - "Protected purchaser."

Section 78.3040 - Indorsement.

Section 78.3050 - Instruction.

Section 78.3060 - Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement or instruction.

Section 78.4010 - Duty of issuer to register transfer.

Section 78.4020 - Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.

Section 78.4030 - Demand that issuer not register transfer.

Section 78.4040 - Wrongful registration.

Section 78.4050 - Replacement of lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken security certificate.

Section 78.5010 - Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary.

Section 78.5030 - Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary.

Section 78.5040 - Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.

Section 78.5050 - Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.

Section 78.5060 - Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder.

Section 78.5070 - Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.

Section 78.5080 - Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder’s position to other form of security holding.

Section 78.5090 - Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute or regulation; manner of performance of duties of securities intermediary and exercise of rights of entitlement holder.

Section 78.5100 - Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.

Section 78.5110 - Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.