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UCC - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 3 - Commercial Paper
Part 2 - Transfer and Negotiation
3-203 - Wrong or Misspelled Name.
Universal Citation: NY UCC § 3-203 (2017)
Section 3--203. Wrong or Misspelled Name.Where an instrument is made payable to a person under a misspelled name or one other than his own he may indorse in that name or his own or both; but signature in both names may be required by a person paying or giving value for the instrument.
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