§490:3-301 Person entitled to enforce instrument. '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 section 490:3-309 or 490:3-418(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. [L 1991, c 118, pt of §1] Law Journals and Reviews Now Where Did That Mortgage Note Go? A Two-Act Play Under U.C.C. §3-301 And 11 U.S.C. §1141(c). 15 HBJ, no. 13, at 71 (2013).
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