Nevada Code § 104.3406

Negligence contributing to forged signature or alteration of instrument
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1. A person whose failure to exercise
ordinary care substantially contributes to an alteration of an instrument or to
the making of a forged signature on an instrument is precluded from asserting
the alteration or the forgery against a person who, in good faith, pays the
instrument or takes it for value or for collection.
2. Under subsection 1, if the person
asserting the preclusion fails to exercise ordinary care in paying or taking
the instrument and that failure substantially contributes to loss, the loss is
allocated between the person precluded and the person asserting the preclusion
according to the extent to which the failure of each to exercise ordinary care
contributed to the loss.
3. Under subsection 1, the burden of
proving failure to exercise ordinary care is on the person asserting the
preclusion. Under subsection 2, the burden of proving failure to exercise
ordinary care is on the person precluded.

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