{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31-4d-1","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 31-4D-1","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In this article, 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 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":["CHAPTER 31. CORPORATIONS.","ARTICLE 4D. UNIFORM ACT FOR SIMPLIFICATION OF FIDUCIARY SECURITY TRANSFERS."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/31-4D-1/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:27:40Z","sha256":"087905c9ecbb5fe54fa42a1039285974fccec845b75cdd56edd695159da73f08","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31-4c-5","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-31-4d-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}