{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-28-2901","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 28-2901","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1)\n“assignment” includes a written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust or other instrument of transfer;\n\n(2)\n“claim of beneficial interest” includes a claim of any interest by a decedent’s legatee, distributee, heir or creditor, a beneficiary under a trust, a ward, a beneficial owner of a security registered in the name of a nominee, or a minor owner of a security registered in the name of a custodian, or a claim of a similar interest, whether the claim is asserted by the claimant, or by a fiduciary, or by any other authorized person on his behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be in breach of fiduciary duties;\n\n(3)\n“corporation” means a private or public corporation, association, or trust issuing a security;\n\n(4)\n“fiduciary” means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian, or nominee;\n\n(5)\n“person” includes an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or other legal or commercial entity;\n\n(6)\n“security” includes a share of stock, bond, debenture, note, or other security issued by a corporation which is registered as to ownership on the books of the corporation;\n\n(7)\n“transfer” means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security;\n\n(8)\n“transfer agent” means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.","path":["Title 28. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]","Chapter 29. Fiduciary Security Transfers."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/28-2901","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"a23660de0fe1cfa6d196b782fb1b598311751371cf0a10d865a59a3bc76b08b4","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-28-2711","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-28-2902"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}