2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 56: Commercial Instruments and Transactions
Article 5: Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Commercial Instruments, 56-5-1 through 56-5-5
Section 56-5-1: Assignability; rights of assignee.


NM Stat § 56-5-1 (1996 through 1st Sess 50th Legis) What's This?

56-5-1. Assignability; rights of assignee.

Except as provided in the Uniform Commercial Code [Chapter 55 NMSA 1978], notes, bonds, due bills and all instruments in writing, by which the maker promises to pay to another, or order or bearer, a sum of money, or by which the maker promises to pay in property or labor, or to pay or deliver any property or labor, or acknowledges any money or labor or property to be due, are assignable by indorsement or by other writing, and the assignee has a right of action in his own name, subject to any defense or setoff, legal or equitable, which the maker or debtor had against any assignor before notice of his assignment.

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