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Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 3.109

PAYABLE TO BEARER OR TO ORDER

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 1–12 (616 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Jones v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2012)

Most recently applied in Jones v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (January 2012)

Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 921, Sec. 1, eff

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

(a) A promise or order is payable to bearer if it:

(1) states that it is payable to bearer or to the order of bearer or otherwise indicates that the person in possession of the promise or order is entitled to payment;

(2) does not state a payee; or

(3) states that it is payable to or to the order of cash or otherwise indicates that it is not payable to an identified person.

(b) A promise or order that is not payable to bearer is payable to order if it is payable (i) to the order of an identified person, or (ii) to an identified person or order. A promise or order that is payable to order is payable to the identified person.

(c) An instrument payable to bearer may become payable to an identified person if it is specially indorsed pursuant to Section 3.205(a). An instrument payable to an identified person may become payable to bearer if it is indorsed in blank pursuant to Section 3.205(b).

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.