{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-403.250","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 403.250","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In sections 403.250 to 403.350, 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 XXVI - TRADE AND COMMERCE","Chapter 403 - Security Transfers by Fiduciaries"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=403.250","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:28Z","sha256":"1f1fb06cf73daedc94fd3301ba51b3e21ca1c9681d066b516fdf473df274e9ac","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-402.208","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-403.260"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}