"Person entitled to enforce" an instrument means the holder of the instrument, a nonholder in possession of the instrument who has the rights of a holder or a person not in possession of the instrument who is entitled to enforce the instrument pursuant to section 47-3309 or section 47-3418, subsection D. A person may be a person entitled to enforce the instrument even though the person is not the owner of the instrument or is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
A.R.S. § 47-3301
Person entitled to enforce instrument
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 47–47 (86 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case In Re: Cynthia Cohen (2002)
Most recently applied in Tarantola v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (In re Tarantola) (April 2013)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.