70A-3-115 - Incomplete instrument. - Utah Statutes

70A-3-115. Incomplete instrument.
(1) "Incomplete instrument" means a signed writing, whether or not issued by the signer,the contents of which show at the time of signing that it is incomplete but that the signer intendedit to be completed by the addition of words or numbers.
(2) Subject to Subsection (3), if an incomplete instrument is an instrument under Section70A-3-104, it may be enforced according to its terms if it is not completed, or according to itsterms as augmented by completion. If an incomplete instrument is not an instrument underSection 70A-3-104, but, after completion, the requirements of Section 70A-3-104 are met, theinstrument may be enforced according to its terms as augmented by completion.
(3) If words or numbers are added to an incomplete instrument without authority of thesigner, there is an alteration of the incomplete instrument under Section 70A-3-407.
(4) The burden of establishing that words or numbers were added to an incompleteinstrument without authority of the signer is on the person asserting the lack of authority.

Repealed and Re-enacted by Chapter 237, 1993 General Session