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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="3-203" title_number="3" title_name="Negotiable Instruments" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Negotiation, Transfer, and Indorsement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An instrument is transferred when it is delivered by a person other than its issuer for the purpose of giving to the person receiving delivery the right to enforce the instrument.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Transfer of an instrument, whether or not the transfer is a negotiation, vests in the transferee any right of the transferor to enforce the instrument, including any right as a holder in due course, but the transferee cannot acquire rights of a holder in due course by a transfer, directly or indirectly, from a holder in due course if the transferee engaged in fraud or illegality affecting the instrument.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Unless otherwise agreed, if an instrument is transferred for value and the transferee does not become a holder because of lack of indorsement by the transferor, the transferee has a specifically enforceable right to the unqualified indorsement of the transferor, but negotiation of the instrument does not occur until the indorsement is made.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If a transferor purports to transfer less than the entire instrument, negotiation of the instrument does not occur. The transferee obtains no rights under this title and has only the rights of a partial assignee.</text>
  </level>
</section>
