Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 678.2081 (2025)
Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.
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678.2081 Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.—
(1) 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) The certificate is genuine.
(b) The person’s own participation in the issue of the security is within the person’s capacity and within the scope of the authority received by the person from the issuer.
(c) 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.
(2) Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subsection (1) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2015–2015 · leading case: Mario A. Rodriguez & Lendy Rodriguez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a Am.'s Servicing Co., 178 So. 3d 62 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015).
Mario A. Rodriguez & Lendy Rodriguez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a Am.'s Servicing Co., 178 So. 3d 62 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). “Section 678.2081, Florida Statutes, deals with' “transfer” of a note and provides, in part: (1) An instrument is transferred when it is .”
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