Georgia § 11-8-206 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 11-8-206 — Completion or alteration of security certificate., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 11-8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate.
If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect: Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and 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. A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms. (Code 1981, § 11-8-206 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 1.)
Source: official Georgia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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