Nevada Revised Statutes 104.3407 – Alteration
1. ’Alteration’ means an unauthorized:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 104.3407
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
(a) Change in an instrument that purports to modify in any respect the obligation of a party; or
(b) Addition of words or numbers or other change to an incomplete instrument relating to the obligation of a party.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an alteration fraudulently made discharges a party whose obligation is affected by the alteration unless that party assents or is precluded from asserting the alteration. No other alteration discharges a party, and the instrument may be enforced according to its original terms.
3. A payor bank or drawee paying a fraudulently altered instrument or a person taking it for value, in good faith, and without notice of the alteration, may enforce rights with respect to the instrument:
(a) According to its original terms; or
(b) In the case of an incomplete instrument altered by unauthorized completion, according to its terms as completed.