Illinois Code § 810 ILCS 5/8-206

Completion or alteration of security
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certificate.

 
(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.

blanks as authorized; and
security certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.

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