§ 678.2061, Fla. Stat. · Part II. ISSUE AND ISSUER
Completion or alteration of security certificate.
Text — 2026 Florida Statutes
(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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 2, ch. 98-11.
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