{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-520.21","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 520.21","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In sections 520.21 to 520.31, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(a) \"Assignment\" includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust, or other instrument of transfer.\n(b) \"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 the claimant's behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be in breach of fiduciary duties.\n(c) \"Corporation\" means a private or public corporation, association or trust issuing a security.\n(d) \"Fiduciary\" means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian, or nominee.\n(e) \"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(f) \"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(g) \"Transfer\" means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security.\n(h) \"Transfer agent\" means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.","path":["FIDUCIARIES; POWERS OF ATTORNEY","CHAPTER 520. FIDUCIARIES; UNIFORM ACTS","SIMPLIFICATION OF FIDUCIARY SECURITY TRANSFERS ACT"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/520.21","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:49Z","sha256":"dd4a30babc90a858ad1e63e1514128d23e5d83364f24f817f2add81c5b6c754e","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-520.13","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-520.22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}