{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-8-114","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-8-114","heading":"Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.","body":"The following rules apply in an action on a certificated security against the issuer:\n(1) Unless specifically denied in the pleadings, each signature on a security certificate or in a necessary indorsement is admitted.\n(2) If the effectiveness of a signature is put in issue, the burden of establishing effectiveness is on the party claiming under the signature, but the signature is presumed to be genuine or authorized.\n(3) If signatures on a security certificate are admitted or established, production of the certificate entitles a holder to recover on it unless the defendant establishes a defense or a defect going to the validity of the security.\n(4) If it is shown that a defense or defect exists, the plaintiff has the burden of establishing that the plaintiff or some person under whom the plaintiff claims is a person against whom the defense or defect cannot be asserted.","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 8. Uniform Commercial Code—Revised Article 8. Investment Securities","Part 1. Short Title and General Matters."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.75.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:13Z","sha256":"93bc922c6f57c16db1aa2c7033cdeb14b1a6ec83d62e4248f5375c082f4f0008","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-8-113","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-8-115","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}