Missouri Revised Statutes § 351.870 - Definitions

351.870. Definitions. — In sections 351.870 to 351.930: (1) "Beneficial shareholder" means the person who is a beneficial owner of shares held in a voting trust or by a nominee as the record shareholder; (2) "Corporation" means a statutory close corporation at the time the corporate action is taken and which is the issuer of the shares held by a dissenter before the corporate action, or the surviving or acquiring corporation by merger or consolidation of that issuer; (3) "Dissenter" means a shareholder who is entitled to dissent from corporate action under section 351.875 and who exercises that right when and in the manner required by sections 351.885 to 351.925; (4) "Fair value", with respect to a dissenter's shares, means the value of the shares immediately before the effectuation of the corporate action to which the dissenter objects, excluding any appreciation or depreciation in anticipation of the corporate action unless exclusion would be inequitable; (5) "Record shareholder" means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation; (6) "Shareholder" means the record shareholder or the beneficial shareholder. (L. 1990 H.B. 1432)