stock certificate

stock certificate
A written instrument signed by the proper officers of a corporation, stating or acknowledging that the person named therein is the owner of a designated number of shares of its stock. Whitehead v Gormley, 116 Okla 287, 245 P 562, 47 ALR 171; 18 Am J2d Corp § 245. Evidence of the ownership of intangible property interests in the corporation. Millar v Mountcastle, 161 Ohio St 409, 119 NE2d 626, 49 ALR2d 381. Not a mere evidence of a stock but, in effect, the stock itself, under the Uniform Stock Transfer Act and the Uniform Commercial Code. 6 Am J2d Attach § 39. Stock certificates are frequently spoken of as securities but they are not securities in the strict legal significance of that term, since they are not evidences of indebtedness. Nelson v Owen, 113 Ala 372, 21 So 75.

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