In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:(a) 'Assignment' includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust or other instrument of transfer.(b) 'Claim of beneficial interest' includes a claim of any interest by a decedent's legatee, distributee, heir or creditor, a beneficiary under a trust, a ward, a beneficial owner of a security registered in the name of a nominee, or a minor owner of a security registered in the name of a custodian, or a claim of any similar interest, whether the claim is asserted by the claimant or by a fiduciary or by any other authorized person on his behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be in breach of fiduciary duties.(c) 'Corporation' means a private or public corporation, association or trust issuing a security.(d) 'Fiduciary' means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian or nominee.(e) 'Person' includes an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial n, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.(f) 'Security' includes any share of stock, bond, debenture, note or other security issued by a corporation which is registered as to ownership on the books of the corporation.(g) 'Transfer' means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security.(h) 'Transfer agent' means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.
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