(a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect: (1) any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and (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. HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-206; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
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