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Code · South Carolina · Title 36 - COMMERCIAL CODE · CHAPTER 3 · Commercial Code—Negotiable Instruments

§ 36-3-407. (d) The burden of establishing that words or numbers were added to an incomplete instrument without authority of the sig.

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§ 36-3-407.
(d)The burden of establishing that words or numbers were added to an incomplete instrument without authority of the signer is on the person asserting the lack of authority.
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