Definition of Stock certificate

1. Noun. A certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation. "The value of his stocks doubled during the past year"

Exact synonyms: Stock
Specialized synonyms: Share
Generic synonyms: Certificate, Security

Definition of Stock certificate

1. Noun. A paper certifying its bearer's ownership of shares (in a certain quantity) in a corporation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stock Certificate

stocious
stock
stock(a)
stock-bow
stock-in-trade
stock-index futures
stock-picker
stock-purchase warrant
stock-still
stock ball
stock breeder
stock buyback
stock car
stock cars
stock certificate (current term)
stock certificates
stock character
stock characters
stock company
stock cube
stock cubes
stock dividend
stock dove
stock exchange
stock exchanges
stock farmer
stock in trade
stock index
stock issue

Literary usage of Stock certificate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Corporations «=» 123(22)— Tender of stock certificate delivered to trustee as collateral without payee's agreement not necessary to recovery on note. ..."

2. Business Law: A Working Manual of Every-day Law by Thomas Conyngton (1920)
"The words "full-paid and non-assessable" should not appear upon the face of a stock certificate unless the corporation has been paid in full for the stock ..."

3. A Manual of Corporate Organization: Containing Information, Directions and by Thomas Conyngton (1913)
"... by parentheses: Form 39—Assignment of stock certificate For Value Received, (I) hereby sell and transfer unto (John J. McMillan of New York City, ..."

4. Corporate Organization and Management by Thomas Conyngton, Helen Potter (1917)
"Assignment of stock certificate For Value Received, (I) hereby sell and transfer unto (John J McMillan of New York City, Twenty-five) Shares of the Capital ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property by James Schouler (1896)
"Whether a stock certificate may be deemed Negotiable. — This brings us to the inquiry whether a stock certificate may be deemed a negotiable instrument in ..."

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