Documentary evidence of the ownership of a block of shares, this will have the following information: the face value of the share, the number of shares represented by the certificate, their distinctive numbers, the certificate number, the holder's name and the folio number on the register in which the holder's name is entered In the case of transferred shares, bought in the secondary market, the last two items will appear at the back, endorsed by the company In the past the certificate could be an elaborate and impressive affair Now the certificates are quite plain and small in size
Document issued to a shareholder by a company certifying ownership of a stipulated part of the assets of the company Once STRATE has been implemented, share certificates will no longer be issued
Share certificate is a security document which specifies the rights of the shareholder versus the issuer A mutual fund share certificate, for example, specifies co-ownership in the assets of a mutual fund
This is a legal document which can be used as proof of ownership of a shareholding But with 30,000 plus share transactions a day going through the London stockmarket in the early 1990's, a lot of paper was being generated A more efficient way of handling share settlements is to do it electronically as happens in many other countries
A corporate document which certifies that the person named on the certificate is entitled to ownership of a certain number of shares of the corporation