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This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 216<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":283709,"object_type":"law","relational_id":86239,"identifier":"8.8A-208","token":"8.8A\/2\/8.8A-208","url":"\/8.8A-208\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.8A-208\/","token":"8.8A\/2\/8.8A-208","dublin_core":{"Title":"Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.8A-208","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

a.<\/span> A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, warrants to a purchaser for value of the certificated security, if the purchaser is without notice of a particular defect, that: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> the certificate is genuine; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> the person’s own participation in the issue<\/span> of the security is within the person’s capacity and within the scope of the authority received by the person from the issuer; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> the person has reasonable grounds to believe that the certificated security is in the form and within the amount the issuer is authorized to issue<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

b.<\/span> Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subsection (a) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nEFFECT OF SIGNATURE OF AUTHENTICATING TRUSTEE, REGISTRAR OR TRANSFER AGENT (\u00a7\n8.8A-208)\n\na. A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee, registrar,\ntransfer agent, or the like, warrants to a purchaser for value of the\ncertificated security, if the purchaser is without notice of a particular\ndefect, that:\n\n 1. the certificate is genuine;\n\n 2. the person’s own participation in the issue of the security is within\n the person’s capacity and within the scope of the authority received by\n the person from the issuer; and\n\n 3. the person has reasonable grounds to believe that the certificated security\n is in the form and within the amount the issuer is authorized to issue.\n\nb. Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subsection (a) does not\nassume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, c. 216.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}