(a) A person who originates an entitlement order to a securities intermediary warrants to the securities intermediary that:
(1) the entitlement order is made by an appropriate person, or if the entitlement order is by an agent, the agent has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and
(2) there is no adverse claim to the security entitlement.
(b) A Person who delivers a security certificate to a securities intermediary for credit to a securities account or originates an instruction with respect to an uncertificated security directing that the uncertificated security be credited to a securities account makes to the securities intermediary the warranties specified in Section 36-8-108(a) or (b).
(c) If a securities intermediary delivers a security certificate to its entitlement holder or causes its entitlement holder to be registered as the owner of an uncertificated security, the securities intermediary makes to the entitlement holder the warranties specified in Section 36-8-108(a) or (b).
HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities
Section 36-8-101. Short title.
Section 36-8-102. Definitions.
Section 36-8-104. Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.
Section 36-8-105. Notice of adverse claim.
Section 36-8-107. Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective.
Section 36-8-108. Warranties in direct holding.
Section 36-8-109. Warranties in indirect holding.
Section 36-8-110. Applicability; choice of law.
Section 36-8-111. Clearing corporation rules.
Section 36-8-112. Creditor's legal process.
Section 36-8-113. Statute of frauds inapplicable.
Section 36-8-114. Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.
Section 36-8-115. Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.
Section 36-8-116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.
Section 36-8-202. Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
Section 36-8-203. Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
Section 36-8-204. Effect of issuer's restriction on transfer.
Section 36-8-205. Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.
Section 36-8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate.
Section 36-8-207. Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.
Section 36-8-208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.
Section 36-8-209. Issuer's lien.
Section 36-8-302. Rights of purchaser.
Section 36-8-303. Protected purchaser.
Section 36-8-304. Indorsement.
Section 36-8-305. Instruction.
Section 36-8-306. Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction.
Section 36-8-307. Registration of transfer of security; proof of authority to transfer.
Section 36-8-401. Duty of issuer to register transfer.
Section 36-8-402. Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.
Section 36-8-403. Demand that issuer not register transfer.
Section 36-8-404. Wrongful registration.
Section 36-8-405. Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
Section 36-8-407. Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar.
Section 36-8-502. Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.
Section 36-8-504. Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.
Section 36-8-505. Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.
Section 36-8-507. Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.
Section 36-8-510. Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
Section 36-8-511. Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.