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endorsement
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endorsement
An owner's signature that serves to transfer the legal rights to a negotiable certificate to another party.

Endorsement
1. The payee's signature on the back of a check indicating that the payee has received the check. Banks require that payees endorse checks before they may be cashed or deposited.

2. An amendment to a document, especially an insurance policy. Informally, they are called riders.

endorsement

(also spelled indorsement) Placing one's signature on the back of a check or other negotiable instrument in order to transfer ownership to another.Endorsers warrant payment of the instrument unless they sign with the additional words “without recourse.”



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Under the Uniform Commercial Code, a bank that accepts a check for deposit warrants to the drawee bank that all indorsements on the check are genuine, and the bank is liable to the drawee bank for the amount of the check plus expenses and lost interest if an indorsement on the check was forged.
As the New York Times theater columnist put it, "Pretty soon we shall be having another opportunity to pass judgement upon George Ade's latest play, "The Father of the Family," which, without such indorsements [sic] as this metropolis may give, has enjoyed substantial success elsewhere" (9 February 1908: VI, 1; emphasis added).
Title companies will, under the proper circumstances, issue special indorsements to cover these issues.
 
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