2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 071 - General Provisions for Uniform Commercial Code
Section 71.1030 - Construction to promote purposes and policies; applicability of supplemental principles of law.

(a) To simplify, clarify and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;
(b) To permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage and agreement of the parties; and
(c) To make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
(2) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy and other validating or invalidating cause, supplement its provisions. [1961 c.726 §71.1030; 2009 c.181 §3; 2011 c.9 §4]

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