{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-106-8-206","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 106, § 8-206","heading":"Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate","body":"Section 8–206. (a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:\n(1) any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and\n(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.\n(b) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.","path":["Part I","Title XV","Chapter 106","Article 8"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXV/Chapter106/Section8-206","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:22:28Z","sha256":"9da36568da73555212fff73f0a4f0805a0be857a7ee43b2a9a4b615370474b82","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-106-8-205","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-106-8-207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}