408.206 Completion or alteration of security certificate.

WI Stat § 408.206 (2019) (N/A)
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408.206 Completion or alteration of security certificate.

(1) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:

(a) Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and

(b) 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.

(2) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.

History: 1997 a. 297.