stockbroker

stockbroker
An agent, who, for a commission or brokerage fee, bargains or carries on negotiations in behalf of his principal as an intermediary between the latter and third persons in transacting business relative to the sale or purchase of corporate stock, bonds, and other securities. Banta v Chicago, 172 111204, 50 NE 233; 12 Am J2d Brok § 1. A person employed in buying and selling stocks. Banta v Chicago, 172 Ill 204, 50 NE 233, 40 LRA 611, 615. One who engages in the business of selling, offering for sale, or negotiating for the sale of, any security. Anno: 87 ALR 71. A person engaged for all or part of his time in the business of buying and selling securities who, in the transaction concerned, acts for, or buys a security from or sells a security to, a customer. UCC § 8-303. One who deals in stock of moneyed corporations and other securities. Little Rock v Barton, 33 Ark 436, 446, 447.

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