They may be contrasted with bearer instruments, where no records are kept of ownership or transfers.

Because eurobonds are bearer instruments, data are not available on the investor base.

Coins are bearer instruments that belong to their possessor.

Head 3: All Hong Kong bearer instruments.

Lottery tickets are bearer instruments, which means that the Lottery must pay the holder of a winning ticket presented for payment.

A bearer instrument is a document that indicates that the owner of the document has title to property, such as shares or bonds.

But, unlike account-based payment instruments, such as credit and debit cards, it works as a pre-paid bearer instrument.

Negotiation can be effected by indorsement and delivery (order instruments), or by delivery alone (bearer instruments).

The payee (i.e. the person named in the "pay to" line) may also convert an instrument into a bearer instrument by endorsing (signing) the back.

Alternatively, an individual or company may write a check payable to "Cash" or "Bearer" and create a bearer instrument.

The examples are Hong Kong bearer instrument, Hong Kong stock, conveyance, contract note.

Stamp duty is levied in the UK on the purchase of shares and securities, the issue of bearer instruments, and certain partnership transactions.

A sub-component of this is to use smaller amounts of cash to purchase bearer instruments, such as money orders, and then ultimately deposit those, again in small amounts.

Bearer instruments differ from normal registered instruments, in that no records are kept of who owns the underlying property, or of the transactions involving transfer of ownership.

Specifically, cheques are order instruments, and are not in general payable simply to the bearer (as bearer instruments are) but must be paid to the payee.

Interests in securities confer property rights in relation to the underlying securities, and in some cases these underlying securities comprise tangible bearer instruments.

A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate.

Bearer instruments can be used in certain jurisdictions to avoid transfer taxes, although taxes may be charged when bearer instruments are issued.

A bearer stock certificate, as its name implies is a bearer instrument, and physical possession of the certificate entitles the holder to exercise all legal rights associated with the stock.

Apart from transfers of shares and securities, the issue of bearer instruments and certain transactions involving partnerships, stamp duty was largely abolished in the UK from 1 December 2003.

While bearer instruments are rarely created as such, a holder of commercial paper with the holder designated as payee can change the instrument to a bearer instrument by an endorsement.

As lottery tickets are considered to be bearer instrument under the Uniform Commercial Code, these lottery scratch card promotions can be entered with non-winning tickets that are picked up as litter.

The instrument, memorializing (1) the power to demand payment; and, (2) the right to be paid, can move, for example, in the instance of a 'bearer instrument', wherein the possession of the document itself attributes and ascribes the right to payment.

He said he knew the investors, and that the law stated that their names never needed to appear on any stock register; that the shares were owned as bearer instruments, which operate like currency, meaning that whoever possesses the stock certificates owns the company.

Custodial Investments are essentially bearer instruments and readily disposable investments held for a client and which are neither the subject of a discretionary management agreement nor held in connection with any personal appointment and which the firm can sell without the client needing to authorise such sale.