Section 400.8-206 Completion or alteration of security certificate.

MO Rev Stat § 400.8-206 (2019) (N/A)
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Effective 28 Aug 1997

400.8-206. 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.

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(L. 1963 p. 503 § 8-206, A.L. 1992 S.B. 448, A.L. 1997 S.B. 6)