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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70356</law_id><section_number>8.3A-306</section_number><catch_line>Claims to an instrument</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.3A-302</reference><reference>8.3A-305</reference><reference>8.3A-602</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.3A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Negotiable Instruments</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Enforcement of Instruments</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A person taking an instrument, other than a person having rights of a holder in due course, is subject to a claim of a property or possessory right in the instrument or its proceeds, including a claim to rescind a negotiation and to recover the instrument or its proceeds. A person having rights of a holder in due course takes free of the claim to the instrument.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 6-367, 6-368, 6-380, 6-409 through 6-411; 1964, c. 219, &#xA7;&#xA7; 8.3-305, 8.3-306; 1992, c. 693.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
