{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-440.8501","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.8501","heading":"“Securities account” defined; acquisition of security entitlement; conditions; directly held financial asset; issuance not as security entitlement.","body":"Sec. 8501.\n\n\"Securities account\" means an account to which a financial asset is or may be credited in accordance with an agreement under which the person maintaining the account undertakes to treat the person for whom the account is maintained as entitled to exercise the rights that comprise the financial asset.\n\nExcept as otherwise provided in subsections (4) and (5), a person acquires a security entitlement if a securities intermediary does 1 or more of the following:\n\nIndicates by book entry that a financial asset has been credited to the person's securities account.\n\nReceives a financial asset from the person or acquires a financial asset for the person and, in either case, accepts it for credit to the person's securities account.\n\nBecomes obligated under other law, regulation, or rule to credit a financial asset to the person's securities account.\n\nIf 1 or more conditions described in subsection (2)(a), (b), or (c) have been met, a person has a security entitlement even though the securities intermediary does not itself hold the financial asset.\n\nIf a securities intermediary holds a financial asset for another person, and the financial asset is registered in the name of, payable to the order of, or specially indorsed to the other person, and has not been indorsed to the securities intermediary or in blank, the other person is treated as holding the financial asset directly rather than as having a security entitlement with respect to the financial asset.\n\nIssuance of a security is not establishment of a security entitlement.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 440","Act Act-174-of-1962"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-440-8501","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"88fba6483395d49866c14fa6dc3a3d4d0dc2178e28f59213b1bc0e36e08c0cb1","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-440.8407","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-440.8502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}