{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-11-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 91-11-3","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In this chapter, 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, 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(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":["Title 91. Trusts and Estates","Chapter 11. Fiduciary Security Transfers"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.91.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:53Z","sha256":"c87b7c1fdf21ead7a1e3145818b6bed581068ae115b4a8f593a4cf7597e35b43","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-11-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-11-5","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."}