2019 California Code
Commercial Code - COM
DIVISION 8 - INVESTMENT SECURITIES
CHAPTER 5 - Security Entitlements
Section 8510.

(a) In a case not covered by the priority rules in Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101) or the rules stated in subdivision (c), an action based on an adverse claim to a financial asset or security entitlement, whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust, equitable lien, or other theory, may not be asserted against a person who purchases a security entitlement, or an interest therein, from an entitlement holder if the purchaser gives value, does not have notice of the adverse claim, and obtains control.

(b) If an adverse claim could not have been asserted against an entitlement holder under Section 8502, the adverse claim cannot be asserted against a person who purchases a security entitlement, or an interest therein, from the entitlement holder.

(c) In a case not covered by the priority rules in Division 9 (commencing with Section 9101), a purchaser for value of a security entitlement, or an interest therein, who obtains control has priority over a purchaser of a security entitlement, or an interest therein, who does not obtain control. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), purchasers who have control rank according to priority in time of any of the following:

(1) The purchaser’s becoming the person for whom the securities account, in which the security entitlement is carried, is maintained, if the purchaser obtained control under paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 8106.

(2) The securities intermediary’s agreement to comply with the purchaser’s entitlement orders with respect to security entitlements carried or to be carried in the securities account in which the security entitlement is carried, if the purchaser obtained control under paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 8106.

(3) If the purchaser obtained control through another person under paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 8106, the time on which priority would be based under this subdivision if the other person were the secured party.

(d) A securities intermediary as purchaser has priority over a conflicting purchaser who has control unless otherwise agreed by the securities intermediary.

(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 991, Sec. 33.41. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2001, by Sec. 75 of Ch. 991.)