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Commercial Code § 8206

CHAPTER 2. Issue and Issuer

Current as of September 28, 2026Com. Code, § 8206Official source ↗

Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 497, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1997.

(a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect, the following apply:

(1) Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized.

(2) Even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.

(b) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.