date of record

noun

1. the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.

Example Sentences

In the Lower 48 states, information about this year’s census is expected to be mailed to households in mid-March, with April 1 designated the date of record for residential information submitted on census forms.

From Reuters

Q: If I buy shares of a stock after its “date of record” for a stock split, but before the actual split, will I get the additional shares?

From Seattle Times

Any event in the series of actions of nesting—nestbuilding, egg-laying, incubation, brooding, feeding young out of nests—can be manipulated by adding or subtracting days to or from the date of record to yield the probable date of completion of the clutch.

From Project Gutenberg

But he probably also wanted to release his opinion before this Monday’s shareholder date of record for the Barnes & Noble annual meeting and Mr. Burkle’s proxy fight.

From New York Times

The great mass of the material to be used in such an inquiry is not ancient so far as its date of record is a test of antiquity, but it is ancient as traditional survival, and it is not possible to trace back custom and belief surviving in modern times to the earliest times, except through the medium of the institutions which formed the social basis of the peoples to whom such custom and belief belonged.

From Project Gutenberg