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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86239</law_id><section_number>8.8A-208</section_number><catch_line>Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.8A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Investment Securities</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Issue and Issuer</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">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: <a id="paragraph-308900" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-208/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> the certificate is genuine; <a id="paragraph-308901" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-208/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the person&#x2019;s own participation in the <span class="dictionary">issue</span> of the security is within the person&#x2019;s capacity and within the scope of the authority received by the person from the issuer; and <a id="paragraph-308902" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-208/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">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 <span class="dictionary">issue</span>. <a id="paragraph-308903" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-208/#a3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subsection (a) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects. <a id="paragraph-308904" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-208/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1996, c. 216.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
