law: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 
  20. Inchoate stamped instruments 
  Where one person signs and delivers to another a paper stamped
  
  in accordance with the law relating to negotiable instruments then in force in
  
  14[India], and either wholly blank or having written thereon an incomplete negotiable
  
  instrument, he thereby gives prima facie authority to the holder thereof to
  
  make or complete, as the case may be, upon it a negotiable instrument, for any
  
  amount specified therein and not exceeding the amount covered by the stamp. The
  
  person so signing shall be liable upon such instrument, in the capacity in
  
  which he signed the same, to any holder in due course for such amount; provided
  
  that no person other than a holder in due course shall recover from the person
  
  delivering the instrument anything in excess of the amount intended by him to
  
  be paid thereunder.