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Pennsylvania · Through 2025-12-01 (Statute Update stamp, 13 Pa.C.S.)

13 Pa.C.S. § 8115: Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.

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  1. Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
  2. CHAPTER 81 SHORT TITLE AND GENERAL MATTERS

A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial asset pursuant to an effective entitlement order, or a broker or other agent or bailee that has dealt with a financial asset at the direction of its customer or principal, is not liable to a person having an adverse claim to the financial asset unless the securities intermediary, or broker or other agent or bailee:

(1) took the action after it had been served with an injunction, restraining order or other legal process enjoining it from doing so, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, and had a reasonable opportunity to act on the injunction, restraining order or other legal process;

(2) acted in collusion with the wrongdoer in violating the rights of the adverse claimant; or

(3) in the case of a security certificate that has been stolen, acted with notice of the adverse claim.

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