Nevada Code § 162.160

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As
used in NRS 162.150 to 162.250 , inclusive, unless the context
otherwise requires:
1. Assignment includes any written stock
power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust or other instrument
of transfer.
2. Claim of beneficial interest includes
a claim of any interest by a decedents legatee, distributee, heir or creditor,
a beneficiary under a trust, a protected person, 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 or her behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer
would be in breach of fiduciary duties.
3. Corporation means a private or public
corporation, association or trust issuing a security.
4. Fiduciary means an executor,
administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor,
custodian or nominee.
5. Person includes a government, a
governmental agency and a political subdivision of a government.
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.
7. Transfer means a change on the books
of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security.
8. Transfer agent means a person
employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the
corporation.

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