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  "title_number": "9",
  "section_number": "3831",
  "citation": "R.S. 9:3831",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) \"Assignment\" includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust or other instrument of transfer;\n\n(2) \"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;\n\n(3) \"Corporation\" means a private or public corporation, association or trust issuing a security;\n\n(4) \"Fiduciary\" means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian or nominee;\n\n(5) \"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 entity;\n\n(6) \"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;\n\n(7) \"Transfer\" means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security;\n\n(8) \"Transfer agent\" means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation.",
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      "number": "XV",
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