Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 8 - Investment Securities

Section 8-404 - Wrongful Registration - Section 8–404. (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 8–406,...

Section 8-403 - Demand That Issuer Not Register Transfer - Section 8–403. (a) A person who is an appropriate person...

Section 8-402 - Assurance That Indorsement or Instruction Is Effective - Section 8–402. (a) An issuer may require the following assurance...

Section 8-401 - Duty of Issuer to Register Transfer - Section 8–401. (a) If a certificated security in registered form...

Section 8-305 - Instruction - Section 8–305. (a) If an instruction has been originated by...

Section 8-304 - Indorsement - Section 8–304. (a) An indorsement may be in blank or...

Section 8-303 - Protected Purchaser - Section 8–303. (a) ''Protected purchaser'', means a purchaser of a...

Section 8-405 - Replacement of Lost, Destroyed, or Wrongfully Taken Security Certificate - Section 8–405. (a) If an owner of a certificated security,...

Section 8-306 - Effect of Guaranteeing Signature, Indorsement, or Instruction - Section 8–306. (a) A person who guarantees a signature of...

Section 8-406 - Obligation to Notify Issuer of Lost, Destroyed, or Wrongfully Taken Security Certificate - Section 8–406. If a security certificate has been lost, apparently...

Section 8-509 - 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 8–509. (a) If the substance of a duty imposed...

Section 8-501 - Securities Account; Acquisition of Security Entitlement From Securities Intermediary - Section 8–501. (a) ''Securities account'', means an account to which...

Section 8-502 - Assertion of Adverse Claim Against Entitlement Holder - Section 8–502. An action based on an adverse claim to...

Section 8-503 - Property Interest of Entitlement Holder in Financial Asset Held by Securities Intermediary - Section 8–503. (a) To the extent necessary for a securities...

Section 8-504 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Maintain Financial Asset - Section 8–504. (a) A securities intermediary shall promptly obtain and...

Section 8-505 - Duty of Securities Intermediary With Respect to Payments and Distributions - Section 8–505. (a) A securities intermediary shall take action to...

Section 8-506 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Exercise Rights as Directed by Entitlement Holder - Section 8–506. A securities intermediary shall exercise rights with respect...

Section 8-507 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Comply With Entitlement Order - Section 8–507. (a) A securities intermediary shall comply with an...

Section 8-508 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Change Entitlement Holder's Position to Other Form of Security Holding - Section 8–508. A securities intermediary shall act at the direction...

Section 8-510 - Rights of Purchaser of Security Entitlement From Entitlement Holder - Section 8–510. (a) In a case not covered by the...

Section 8-511 - Priority Among Security Interests and Entitlement Holders - Section 8–511. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b)...

Section 8-302 - Rights of Purchaser - Section 8–302. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b)...

Section 8-407 - Authenticating Trustee, Transfer Agent, and Registrar - Section 8–407. A person acting as authenticating trustee, transfer agent,...

Section 8-301 - Delivery - Section 8–301. (a) Delivery of a certificated security to a...

Section 8-307 - Purchaser's Right to Requisites for Registration of Transfer - Section 8–307. Unless otherwise agreed, the transferor of a security...

Section 8-209 - Issuer's Lien - Section 8–209. A lien in favor of an issuer upon...

Section 8-101 - Short Title - Section 8–101. This article may be cited as Uniform Commercial...

Section 8-210 - Overissue - Section 8–210. (a) In this section, ''overissue'' means the issue...

Section 8-102 - Definitions - Section 8–102. (a) In this article: (1) ''Adverse claim'', means...

Section 8-103 - Rules for Determining Whether Certain Obligations and Interests Are Securities or Financial Assets - Section 8–103. (a) A share or similar equity interest issued...

Section 8-104 - Acquisition of Security or Financial Asset or Interest Therein - Section 8–104. (a) A person acquires a security or an...

Section 8-105 - Notice of Adverse Claim - Section 8–105. (a) A person has notice of an adverse...

Section 8-106 - Control - Section 8–106. (a) A purchaser has ''control'' of a certificated...

Section 8-107 - Whether Indorsement, Instruction, or Entitlement Order Is Effective - Section 8–107. (a) ''Appropriate person'' means: (1) with respect to...

Section 8-108 - Warranties in Direct Holding - Section 8–108. (a) A person who transfers a certificated security...

Section 8-109 - Warranties in Indirect Holding - Section 8–109. (a) A person who originates an entitlement order...

Section 8-110 - Applicability; Choice of Law - Section 8–110. (a) The local law of the issuer's jurisdiction,...

Section 8-111 - Clearing Corporation Rules - Section 8–111. A rule adopted by a clearing corporation governing...

Section 8-207 - Rights and Duties of Issuer With Respect to Registered Owners - Section 8–207. (a) Before due presentment for registration of transfer...

Section 8-113 - Statute of Frauds Inapplicable - Section 8–113. A contract or modification of a contract for...

Section 8-208 - Effect of Signature of Authenticating Trustee, Registrar, or Transfer Agent - Section 8–208. (a) A person signing a security certificate as...

Section 8-112 - Creditor's Legal Process - Section 8–112. (a) The interest of a debtor in a...

Section 8-205 - Effect of Unauthorized Signature on Security Certificate - Section 8–205. An unauthorized signature placed on a security certificate...

Section 8-204 - Effect of Issuer's Restriction on Transfer - Section 8–204. A restriction on transfer of a security imposed...

Section 8-203 - Staleness as Notice of Defect or Defense - Section 8–203. After an act or event, other than a...

Section 8-206 - Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate - Section 8–206. (a) If a security certificate contains the signatures...

Section 8-201 - Issuer - Section 8–201. (a) With respect to an obligation on or...

Section 8-116 - Securities Intermediary as Purchaser for Value - Section 8–116. A securities intermediary that receives a financial asset...

Section 8-115 - Securities Intermediary and Others Not Liable to Adverse Claimant - Section 8–115. A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial...

Section 8-114 - Evidentiary Rules Concerning Certificated Securities - Section 8–114. The following rules apply in an action on...

Section 8-202 - Issuer's Responsibility and Defenses; Notice of Defect or Defense - Section 8–202. (a) Even against a purchaser for value and...