Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate

Ala. Code § 7-8-206 — under Title 7.

Ala. Code § 7-8-206

(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History: (Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811; repealed by Acts 1996, No. 96-742, p. 1241, §1; added by Acts 1996, No. 96-742, p. 1241, §1.)