30-10-402. Definitions. In this part, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Assignment" includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust, or other instrument of transfer.
     (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.
     (3) "Corporation" means a private or public corporation, association, or trust issuing a security.
     (4) "Fiduciary" means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian, or nominee.
     (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.
     (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.
     (7) "Transfer" means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security.
     (8) "Transfer agent" means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 101, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 15-652.