(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: 1962 Code Section 10.8-206; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities
Section 36-8-101. Short title.
Section 36-8-102. Definitions.
Section 36-8-104. Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.
Section 36-8-105. Notice of adverse claim.
Section 36-8-107. Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective.
Section 36-8-108. Warranties in direct holding.
Section 36-8-109. Warranties in indirect holding.
Section 36-8-110. Applicability; choice of law.
Section 36-8-111. Clearing corporation rules.
Section 36-8-112. Creditor's legal process.
Section 36-8-113. Statute of frauds inapplicable.
Section 36-8-114. Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.
Section 36-8-115. Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.
Section 36-8-116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.
Section 36-8-202. Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
Section 36-8-203. Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
Section 36-8-204. Effect of issuer's restriction on transfer.
Section 36-8-205. Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.
Section 36-8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate.
Section 36-8-207. Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.
Section 36-8-208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.
Section 36-8-209. Issuer's lien.
Section 36-8-302. Rights of purchaser.
Section 36-8-303. Protected purchaser.
Section 36-8-304. Indorsement.
Section 36-8-305. Instruction.
Section 36-8-306. Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction.
Section 36-8-307. Registration of transfer of security; proof of authority to transfer.
Section 36-8-401. Duty of issuer to register transfer.
Section 36-8-402. Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.
Section 36-8-403. Demand that issuer not register transfer.
Section 36-8-404. Wrongful registration.
Section 36-8-405. Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
Section 36-8-407. Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar.
Section 36-8-502. Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.
Section 36-8-504. Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.
Section 36-8-505. Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.
Section 36-8-507. Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.
Section 36-8-510. Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
Section 36-8-511. Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.