Sec. 15. Incomplete instrument not delivered.

- Where an incomplete instrument has not been

delivered, it will not, if completed and negotiated without authority, be a valid contract in the hands of
any holder, as against any person whose signature was placed thereon before delivery.

Sec. 23. Forged signature; effect of. - When a signature is forged or made without the authority of the
person whose signature it purports to be, it is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the instrument,
or to give a discharge therefor, or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be
acquired through or under such signature, unless the party against whom it is sought to enforce such
right is precluded from setting up the forgery or want of authority.

Sec. 29. Liability of accommodation party. - An accommodation party is one who has signed the
instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor, or indorser, without receiving value therefor, and for the
purpose of lending his name to some other person. Such a person is liable on the instrument to a holder
for value, notwithstanding such holder, at the time of taking the instrument, knew him to be only an
accommodation party.

Sec. 52. What constitutes a holder in due course. - A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the
instrument under the following conditions:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary

(a) That it is complete and regular upon its face;

(b) That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it has been previously
dishonored, if such was the fact;

(c) That he took it in good faith and for value;

(d) That at the time it was negotiated to him, he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or
defect in the title of the person negotiating it.