Virginia § 8.8A-206 - Completion or alteration of security certificate
Full text of Virginia Code of Virginia § 8.8A-206 — Completion or alteration of security certificate, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 8.8A-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate
(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.
1996, c. 216.
Source: official Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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