{"data":{"id":"us-la/rs-9-3831","jurisdiction":"us-la","citation":"RS 9:3831","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, 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 any 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(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, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two 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 9. CIVIL CODE-ANCILLARIES","CHAPTER 2. UNIFORM LAW FOR SIMPLIFICATION OF FIDUCIARY SECURITY TRANSFERS"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=107813","current_through":"2025 First Extraordinary Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:49:51Z","sha256":"1b561291851e826251ac25e1948f011a19fc46614140024686f4443ba867b19f","source_id":"us-la","stale":false,"prev":"us-la/rs-9-3814","next":"us-la/rs-9-3832"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}