{"data":{"id":"us-de/12-del.-c.-4301","jurisdiction":"us-de","citation":"12 Del. C. § 4301","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(1) “Assignment” includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust or other instrument of transfer.\n(2) “Claim of beneficial interest” includes a claim of any interest by a decedent’s legatee, distributee, heirs 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 any similar interest, whether the claim is asserted by the claimant or by a fiduciary or by any other authorized person on the claimant’s behalf and includes a claim that the transfer would be in breach of fiduciary duties.\n(3) “Corporation” means a private or public corporation, association or trust issuing a security.\n(4) “Fiduciary” means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian or nominee.\n(5) “Person” includes an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, 2 or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity.\n(6) “Security” includes any 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(7) “Transfer” means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security.\n(8) “Transfer agent” means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.","path":["Title 12. Decedents’ Estates and Fiduciary Relations","Fiduciary Relations","CHAPTER 43. Uniform Act for Simplification of Fiduciary Security Transfers"],"source_url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title12/c043/index.html#4301","current_through":"2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T23:02:16Z","sha256":"fc9142dbcc8ad209bd95841ea638071b594e6ada73b41b094975402fd3adf14d","source_id":"us-de","stale":true,"prev":"us-de/12-del.-c.-4103","next":"us-de/12-del.-c.-4302"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}