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...(A) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect: (1) Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and (2) Even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness. (B) A complete security certificate that has...

...(A) Before due presentment for registration of transfer of a certificated security in registered form or of an instruction requesting registration of transfer of an uncertificated security, the issuer or indenture trustee may treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to vote, receive notifications, and otherwise exercise all the rights and powers of an owner. (B) This chapter does not affect the ...

...(A) A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, warrants to a purchaser for value of the certificated security, if the purchaser is without notice of the particular defect, that: (1) The certificate is genuine; (2) The person's own participation in the issue of the security is within the person's capacity and within the scope of the authority received b...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security acquires all rights in the security that the transferor had or had power to transfer. (B) A purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest purchased. (C) A purchaser of a certificated security who as a previous holder had notice of an adverse claim...

...(A) A "protected purchaser" means a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security, or of an interest therein, who: (1) Gives value; (2) Does not have notice of any adverse claim to the security; and (3) Obtains control of the certificated or uncertificated security. (B) In addition to acquiring the rights of a purchaser, a protected purchaser also acquires its interest in the security free of any adverse...

...(A) A person acquires a security or an interest therein, under this chapter, if: (1) The person is a purchaser to whom a security is delivered pursuant to section 1308.27 of the Revised Code; or (2) The person acquires a security entitlement to the security pursuant to section 1308.51 of the Revised Code. (B) A person acquires a financial asset, other than a security, or an interest therein, under this chapter, if...

...(A) A person has notice of an adverse claim if: (1) The person knows of the adverse claim; (2) The person is aware of facts sufficient to indicate that there is a significant probability that the adverse claim exists and deliberately avoids information that would establish the existence of the adverse claim; or (3) The person has a duty, imposed by statute or rule, to investigate whether an adverse claim exists, a...

...(A) A person who transfers a certificated security to a purchaser for value warrants to the purchaser, and an indorser, if the transfer is by indorsement, warrants to any subsequent purchaser, that: (1) The certificate is genuine and has not been materially altered; (2) The transferor or indorser does not know of any fact that might impair the validity of the security; (3) There is no adverse claim to the security...

...(A) A person who originates an entitlement order to a securities intermediary warrants to the securities intermediary that: (1) The entitlement order is made by an appropriate person, or if the entitlement order is by an agent, the agent has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (2) There is no adverse claim to the security entitlement. (B) A person who delivers a security certificate to...

...(A) An indorsement may be in blank or special. An indorsement in blank includes an indorsement to bearer. A special indorsement specifies to whom a security is to be transferred or who has power to transfer it. A holder may convert a blank indorsement to a special indorsement. (B) An indorsement purporting to be only of part of a security certificate representing units intended by the issuer to be separately transfe...

...(A) "Appropriate person" means: (1) With respect to an indorsement, the person specified by a security certificate or by an effective special indorsement to be entitled to the security; (2) With respect to an instruction, the registered owner of an uncertificated security; (3) With respect to an entitlement order, the entitlement holder; (4) If the person designated in division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section...

...(A) A purchaser has "control" of a certificated security in bearer form if the certificated security is delivered to the purchaser. (B) A purchaser has "control" of a certificated security in registered form if the certificated security is delivered to the purchaser, and: (1) The certificate is indorsed to the purchaser or in blank by an effective indorsement; or (2) The certificate is registered in the name of th...

...(A) If an instruction has been originated by an appropriate person but is incomplete in any other respect, any person may complete it as authorized and the issuer may rely on it as completed, even though it has been completed incorrectly. (B) Unless otherwise agreed, a person initiating an instruction assumes only the obligations imposed by section 1308.20 of the Revised Code and not an obligation that the security ...

...(A) A person who guarantees a signature of an indorser of a security certificate warrants that at the time of signing: (1) The signature was genuine; (2) The signer was an appropriate person to indorse, or if the signature is by an agent, the agent had actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and (3) The signer had legal capacity to sign. (B) A person who guarantees a signature of the originat...

...(A) Delivery of a certificated security to a purchaser occurs when: (1) The purchaser acquires possession of the security certificate; (2) Another person, other than a securities intermediary, either acquires possession of the security certificate on behalf of the purchaser or, having previously acquired possession of the certificate, acknowledges that it holds for the purchaser; or (3) A securities intermediary a...

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed, if a sale of a security is made on an exchange or otherwise through brokers: (1) The selling customer fulfills his duty to transfer at the time he: (a) Places a certificated security in the possession of the selling broker or of a person designated by the broker; (b) Causes an uncertificated security to be registered in the name of the selling broker or a person designated by the broke...

...(A) Any person against whom the transfer of a security is wrongful for any reason, including his incapacity, as against anyone except a bona fide purchaser, may: (1) Reclaim possession of the certificated security wrongfully transferred; (2) Obtain possession of any new certificated security representing all or part of the same rights; (3) Compel the origination of an instruction to transfer to him or a person des...

...Unless otherwise agreed, the transferor of a security on due demand shall supply the purchaser with proof of authority to transfer or with any other requisite necessary to obtain registration of the security, but if the transfer is not for value, a transferor need not comply unless the purchaser pays the necessary expenses. If the transferor fails within a reasonable time to comply with the demand, the purchaser may...

...(A) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security may be reached by a creditor only by actual seizure of the security certificate by the officer making the attachment or levy, except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section. However, a certificated security for which the certificate has been surrendered to the issuer may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the issuer. (B) The interest o...

...(A) A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial asset pursuant to an effective entitlement order, or a broker or other agent or bailee that has dealt with a financial asset at the direction of its customer or principal, is not liable to a person having an adverse claim to the financial asset, unless the securities intermediary, or broker or other agent or bailee: (1) Took the action after it had been ...

...(A) If a certificated security in registered form is presented to the issuer with a request to register transfer or an instruction is presented to the issuer with a request to register transfer of an uncertificated security, the issuer shall register the transfer as requested if: (1) Under the terms of the security the person seeking registration of transfer is eligible to have the security registered in its name; ...

...(A) An issuer may require the following assurance that each necessary indorsement or each instruction is genuine and authorized: (1) In all cases, a guaranty of the signature of the person making an indorsement or originating an instruction including, in the case of an instruction, reasonable assurance of identity; (2) If the indorsement is made or the instruction is originated by an agent, appropriate assurance of...

...(A) A person who is an appropriate person to make an indorsement or originate an instruction may demand that the issuer not register transfer of a security by communicating to the issuer a notification that identifies the registered owner and the issue of which the security is a part and provides an address for communications directed to the person making the demand. The demand is effective only if it is received by ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 1308.41 of the Revised Code. An issuer is liable for wrongful registration of transfer if the issuer has registered a transfer of a security to a person not entitled to it, and the transfer was registered: (1) Pursuant to an ineffective indorsement or instruction; (2) After a demand that the issuer not register transfer became effective under division (A) of section 1308....

...(A) If a security certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed, or wrongfully taken and the owner fails to notify the issuer of that fact within a reasonable time after the owner has notice of it and the issuer registers a transfer of the security before receiving notification, the owner may not assert against the issuer a claim for registering the transfer under section 1308.40 of the Revised Code or any claim to...