{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-commercial-law-8-206","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Commercial Law § 8–206","heading":"","body":"(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":["Article - Commercial Law"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcl\u0026section=8-206","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:56:33Z","sha256":"9767278509ce66bf0cade872571c437f81f4a28b7b59e063f5de59293b2b02d2","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-commercial-law-8-205","next":"us-md/md.-code-commercial-law-8-207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}