“Person entitled to enforce” an instrument means (i) the holder of the instrument, (ii) a nonholder in possession of the instrument who has the rights of a holder, or (iii) a person not in possession of the instrument who is entitled to enforce the instrument pursuant to § 47-3-309 or § 47-3-418(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.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-3-301
Person entitled to enforce instrument
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 47–47 (578 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Thompson v. Bank of America, N.A. (2014)
Most recently applied in Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Ashmore (July 2017)
Acts 1995, ch. 397, § 2.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.