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This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 216<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":283701,"object_type":"law","relational_id":78840,"identifier":"8.8A-206","token":"8.8A\/2\/8.8A-206","url":"\/8.8A-206\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.8A-206\/","token":"8.8A\/2\/8.8A-206","dublin_core":{"Title":"Completion or alteration of security certificate","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.8A-206","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

a.<\/span> If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue<\/span> or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> 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. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

b.<\/span> A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCOMPLETION OR ALTERATION OF SECURITY CERTIFICATE (\u00a7 8.8A-206)\n\na. If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or\ntransfer but is incomplete in any other respect:\n\n 1. any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and\n\n 2. even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security certificate as\n completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without\n notice of the incorrectness.\n\nb. A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if\nfraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, c. 216.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}