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Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-3-403

Unauthorized signature

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 47–47 (578 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case United States v. George Skouteris, Jr. (2022)

Most recently applied in United States v. George Skouteris, Jr. (October 2022)

Acts 1995, ch. 397, § 2.

(1) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter or chapter 4 of this title, an unauthorized signature is ineffective except as the signature of the unauthorized signer in favor of a person who in good faith pays the instrument or takes it for value. An unauthorized signature may be ratified for all purposes of this chapter.

(2) If the signature of more than one person is required to constitute the authorized signature of an organization, the signature of the organization is unauthorized if one of the required signatures is lacking.

(3) The civil or criminal liability of a person who makes an unauthorized signature is not affected by any provision of this chapter which makes the unauthorized signature effective for the purposes of this chapter.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.