Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 408 - Uniform commercial code — investment securities.
408.303 - Protected purchaser.

408.303 Protected purchaser.
(1) In this chapter, “protected purchaser" means a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security, or of an interest therein, who:
(a) Gives value;
(b) Does not have notice of any adverse claim to the security; and
(c) Obtains control of the certificated or uncertificated security.
(2) In addition to acquiring the rights of a purchaser, a protected purchaser also acquires its interest in the security free of any adverse claim.
History: 1997 a. 297.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 408 - Uniform commercial code — investment securities.

408.101 - Short title.

408.102 - Definitions.

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

408.104 - Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.

408.105 - Notice of adverse claim.

408.106 - Control.

408.107 - Whether endorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective.

408.108 - Warranties in direct holding.

408.109 - Warranties in indirect holding.

408.110 - Applicability; choice of law.

408.111 - Clearing corporation rules.

408.112 - Creditor's legal process.

408.113 - Statute of frauds inapplicable.

408.114 - Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.

408.115 - Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.

408.116 - Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.

408.201 - Issuer.

408.202 - Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.

408.203 - Staleness as notice of defect or defense.

408.204 - Effect of issuer's restriction on transfer.

408.205 - Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.

408.206 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.

408.207 - Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.

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

408.209 - Issuer's lien.

408.210 - Overissue.

408.301 - Delivery.

408.302 - Rights of purchaser.

408.303 - Protected purchaser.

408.304 - Endorsement.

408.305 - Instruction.

408.306 - Effect of guaranteeing signature, endorsement or instruction.

408.307 - Purchaser's right to requisites for registration of transfer.

408.401 - Duty of issuer to register transfer.

408.402 - Assurance that endorsement or instruction is effective.

408.403 - Demand that issuer not register transfer.

408.404 - Wrongful registration.

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

408.406 - Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken security certificate.

408.407 - Authenticating trustee, transfer agent and registrar.

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

408.502 - Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.

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

408.504 - Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.

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

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

408.507 - Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.

408.508 - Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder's position to other form of security holding.

408.509 - 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.

408.510 - Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.

408.511 - Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.

408.603 - Saving provision.