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S.C. Code Ann. § 36-8-304

Indorsement

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 36–36 (519 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Southern Bank and Trust Company v. Daniel Rhoades and Norma Rhoades, a Acli Government Securities, Inc. (1986)

Most recently applied in Southern Bank and Trust Company v. Daniel Rhoades and Norma Rhoades, a Acli Government Securities, Inc. (September 1986)

1962 Code SECTION 10.8-304; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, SECTION 1; 2001 Act No. 67, SECTION 5.

(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 transferable is effective to the extent of the indorsement.

(c) An indorsement, whether special or in blank, does not constitute a transfer until delivery of the certificate on which it appears or, if the indorsement is on a separate document, until delivery of both the document and the certificate.

(d) If a security certificate in registered form has been delivered to a purchaser without a necessary indorsement, the purchaser may become a protected purchaser only when the indorsement is supplied. However, against a transferor, a transfer is complete upon delivery and the purchaser has a specifically enforceable right to have any necessary indorsement supplied.

(e) An indorsement of a security certificate in bearer form may give notice of an adverse claim to the certificate, but it does not otherwise affect a right to registration that the holder possesses.

(f) Unless otherwise agreed, a person making an indorsement assumes only the obligations provided in Section 36-8-108 and not an obligation that the security will be honored by the issuer.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.