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1 TITLE 24 COMMERCIAL CODE TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER General Provisions Short title; Construction, Application and subject matter or the act Purposes; Rules of construction; Variation by agreement Supplementary general principles of law applicable Construction against implicit repeal Territorial application of the code; Parties power to choose applicable law Remedies to be liberally administered Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after breach Severability Section captions General definitions and principles of interpretation Prima facie evidence by third-party documents Obligation of good faith Time; Reasonable time; Seasonably Course of dealing and usage of trade State of frauds for kinds of personal property not otherwise covered Performance or acceptance under reservation of rights Option to accelerate at will Subordinated obligation 8 CHAPTER Sales Short title; General construct and subject matter Scope; Certain security and other transactions excluded from this article Definitions and index of definitions Definitions; Merchant ; Between merchants ; Financing agency Definitions; Transferability, goods, future goods, lot, commercial unit Definitions; Contract, agreement, contract for sale, sale, present sale, conforming to contract, termination, Cancellation Goods to be severed from realty, Recording 10 CHAPTER Form, formation and Readjustment of Contract Formal requirements; Statute of frauds Final written expression; Parole or extrinsic evidence Seals inoperative Formation in general Firm offers Offer and acceptance in formation of contract Additional Terms in Acceptance or Confirmation Course of performance or practical construction Modification, rescission and waiver Delegation of performance; Assignment of rights 13 CHAPTER i

2 General Obligation and Construction of Contract General obligation of parties Unconscionable contract or clause Allocation or Division of Risks Price payable in money, goods, realty or otherwise Open price term Output, requirements and exclusive dealings Delivery in single lot or several lots Absence of specified place for delivery Absence of specific time provisions; Notice of termination Open time for payment or running of credit; Authority to ship under reservation Options and cooperation respecting performance Warranty of title and against infringement; Buyer s obligation against infringement Express warranties by affirmation, promise, description, sample Implied warranty; Merchantability; Usage of trade Implied warranty; Fitness for particular purpose Implied warranties; Exclusion of sales of blood, blood plasma, human tissue or organs as medical services Exclusion or modification of warranties Cattle, hogs and sheep; No implied warranty as to disease Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied Third-party beneficiaries of warranties express or implied F.O.B. and F.A.S. terms C.I.F. and C. & F. terms C.I.F. or C. & F.; Net landed weights ; Payment on arrival Warranty of condition on arrival Delivery ex-ship Form of bill of lading required in overseas shipment; Overseas No arrival, no sale term Letter of credit term; Confirmed credit Sale on approval and sale or return; Consignment sales and rights of creditors Special incidents of sale on approval and sale or return Sale by auction 21 CHAPTER Title, Creditors, and Good Faith Purchases Passing of title; Reservation for security; Limited Application of this section Rights of seller s creditors against sold goods Power to transfer; Good faith purchases of goods; Entrusting 23 CHAPTER Performances Insurable interest in goods; Manner of identification of goods Buyer s rights to goods on seller s insolvency Manner of seller s tender of delivery Shipment by seller Seller s shipment under reservation Rights of financing agency Effect of seller s tender; Delivery on condition 26 ii

3 Cure by seller of improper tender or delivery; Replacement Risk of loss in the absence of breach Effect of breach on risk of loss Tender of payment by buyer; Payment by check Payment by buyer before inspection Buyer s right to inspection of goods When documents deliverable on acceptance; When on payment Preserving evidence of goods in dispute 27 CHAPTER Breach, Repudiation, and Excuse Buyer s rights on improper delivery Manner and effect of rightful rejection Merchant buyer s duties as to rightfully rejected goods Buyer s options as to salvage of rightfully rejected goods Waiver of buyer s objections by failure to particularize What constitutes acceptance of goods Effect of acceptance; Notice of breach; Burden of establishing breach after acceptance; Notice of claim or litigation to person answerable over Revocation of acceptance in whole or in part Right to adequate assurance of performance Anticipatory repudiation Retraction of anticipatory repudiation Installment contract ; Breach Casualty to identified goods Substituted performance Excuse by failure of presupposed conditions Procedure on notice claiming excuse 32 CHAPTER Remedies Remedies for breach of collateral contracts not impaired Seller s remedies on discovery of buyer s insolvency Seller s remedies in general Seller s right to identify goods to the contract notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods Seller s stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise Seller s resale including contract for resale Person in the position of a seller Seller s damages for non-acceptance or repudiation Action for the price Seller s incidental damages Buyer s remedies in general; Buyer s security interest in rejected goods Cover ; Buyer s procurement of substitute goods Buyer s damages for non-delivery or repudiation Buyer s damages for breach in regard to accepted goods Buyer s incidental and consequential damages Buyer s right to specific performance or replevin Deduction of damages from the price Liquidation or limitation of damages Deposits Contractual modification or limitation of remedy Effect of cancellation or rescission on claims for antecedent breach Remedies for fraud Who can sue third parties for injury to goods 38 iii

4 Proof of market price; Time and place Admissibility of market quotations Statute of limitations in contracts for sale 39 CHAPTER Leases of Goods Short title Scope Definitions; Index of definitions Leases subject to other statutes Territorial application of article to goods covered by certificate of title Limitation on power of parties to consumer lease to choose applicable law and judicial forum Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after default Unconscionability 43 CHAPTER Formation and Construction of Lease Contract Statue of frauds Final written expression; Parol or extrinsic evidence Seals inoperative Formation in general Firm offers Offer and acceptance in formation of lease contract Course of performance or practical construction Modification, rescission and waiver Lessee under finance lease as beneficiary of supply contract Express warranties Warranties against interference and against infringement; lessee s obligation against infringement Implied warranty of merchantability Implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose Exclusion or modification of warranties Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied Third party beneficiaries of express and implied warranties Identification Insurance and proceeds Risk of loss Effect of default on risk of loss Casualty to identified goods 49 CHAPTER Effects of Lease Contract Enforceability of lease contract Title to and possession of goods Alienability of party s interest under lease contract or of lessor s residual interest in goods; delegation of performance; assignment of rights Subsequent lease of goods by lessor Sale or sublease of goods by lessee Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods 51 iv

5 Special rights of creditors Lessor s and lessee s rights when goods become fixtures Lessor s and lessee s rights when goods become accessions 54 CHAPTER Performance of Lease Contract: Repudiated, Substituted and Excused Insecurity; Adequate assurance of performance Anticipatory repudiation Retraction of anticipatory repudiation Substituted performance Excused performance Procedure on excused performance Irrevocable promises; Finance leases 56 CHAPTER Default Default procedures Notice after default Modification or impairment of rights and remedies Liquidation of damages Cancellation and termination and effect of cancellation, termination, rescission, or fraud on rights and remedies Statute of limitations Proof of market rent; Time and place Lessee s remedies Lessee s rights on improper delivery; Rightful rejection Installment lease contracts; Rejection and default Merchant lessee s duties as to rightfully rejected goods Lessee s duties as to rightfully rejected goods Cure by lessor of improper delivery; Replacement Waiver of lessee s objections Acceptance of goods Effect of acceptance of goods; Notice of default; Burden of establishing default after acceptance; Notice of claim or litigation to person answerable over Revocation of acceptance of goods Cover; Substitute goods Lessee s damages for non-delivery, repudiation, default and breach of warranty in regard to accepted goods Lessee s incidental and consequential damages Lessee s right to specific performance or replevin Lessee s right to goods on lessor s insolvency Lessee s rights Lessor s right to identify goods to lease contract Lessor s right to possession of goods Lessor s stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise Lessor s rights to dispose of goods Lessor s damages for non-acceptance or repudiation Lessor s action for a rent Lessor s incidental damages Lessor s right to recover for damage to residual interest Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods 68 CHAPTER Negotiable Instrumentals Short title Subject matter 68 v

6 Definitions Negotiable instrument Issue of instrument Unconditional promise or order Instrument payable in foreign money Payable on demand or at definite time Payable to bearer or to order Identification of person to whom instrument is payable Place of payment Interest Date of instrument Contradictory terms of instrument Incomplete instruments Joint and several liability contribution Other agreements affecting instrument Statute of limitations Notice of right to defend action 75 CHAPTER Negotiation, Transfer, and Endorsement Negotiation Negotiation subject to rescission Transfer of instrument rights acquired by transfer Endorsement Special endorsement; Blank endorsement; Anomalous endorsement Restrictive endorsement Reacquisition 78 CHAPTER Enforcement of Instruments Person entitled to enforce instrument Holder in due course Value and consideration Overdue instrument Defense and claims in recoupment Claims to an instrument Notice of breach of fiduciary duty Proof of signatures and status as holder in due course Enforcement of lost, destroyed, or stolen instrument Effect of instrument on obligation for which taken Accord and satisfaction by use of instrument Lost, destroyed, or stolen cashier s check, teller s check or certified check 84 CHAPTER Liability of parties Signature Signature by representative Unauthorized signature Imposters Fictitious payees Employer s responsibility for fraudulent endorsement by employee Negligence contributing to forged signature or alteration of instrument Alteration Drawee not liable on unaccepted draft 88 vi

7 Acceptance of draft Certified check Acceptance varying draft Refusal to pay cashier s checks, teller s checks, and certified checks Obligation of issuer of note or cashier s check Obligation of acceptor Obligation of drawer Obligation of endorser Transfer warranties Presentment warranties Payment or acceptance by mistake Instruments signed for accommodation Conversion of instrument Collection costs and expenses Liability or issuer of dishonored check Circumstance under which issuer of dishonored check liable reasonable costs and expenses 93 CHAPTER Dishonor Presentment Dishonor Notice of dishonor Excused presentment and notice of dishonor Evidence of dishonor 96 CHAPTER Discharge and Payment Discharge and effect of discharge Payment Tender of payment Discharge by cancellation or renunciation Discharge of endorsers and accommodation parties 98 CHAPTER Bank Deposits and Collections Short title Applicability Variation by agreement; Measure of damages; Certain action constituting ordinary care Definitions; Index of definitions Bank ; Depositary bank ; Payor bank ; Intermediary bank ; Collecting bank ; Presenting bank Payable through or payable at bank Collecting bank Separate office of a bank Time of receipt of items Delays Electronic presentment Statute of limitations 102 CHAPTER Collection of Items: Depositary and Collecting Banks Status of collecting bank as agent and provisional status of credits; Applicability of article; Item endorsed pay any bank Responsibility for collection or return when action timely Effect of Instructions 103 vii

8 Methods of sending and presenting; Sending directly to payor bank Depositary bank holder of unendorsed item Transfer between banks Transfer warranties Presentment warranties Encoding and retention warranties Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompany documents and proceeds When bank gives value for purposes of holder in due course Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through, or at a bank Liability of drawer or endorser Medium and time of settlement by bank Right of charge-back or refund; Liability of collecting bank; Return of item Final payment of item by payor bank when provisional debits and credits become final when certain credits become available for withdrawal Insolvency and Preference 108 CHAPTER Collection of Items: Payor Banks Deferred posting Recovery of payment by return of items Time of dishonor Return of items by payor bank Payor bank s responsibility for late return of item When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff Order in which items may be charged or certified 109 CHAPTER Relationship Between Payor Bank and Its Customer When bank may charge customer s account Bank s liability to customer for wrongful dishonor; Time of determining insufficiency of account Customer s right to stop payment Burden of proof of loss Bank not obligated to pay check more than six months old Death or incompetence of customer Customer s duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alterations Payor bank s right to subrogation on improper payment 112 CHAPTER Collection of Documentary Drafts Handling of documentary drafts; Duty to send for presentment and to notify customer of dishonor Presentment of on-arrival drafts Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods; Report of reasons for dishonor; referee in case of need Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods; Security interest for expenses 113 CHAPTER Funds Transfers Short title Subject matter Definitions; Payment order Definitions; Funds transfer 114 viii

9 Other definitions Time payment order is received Federal Reserve regulations and operating circulars Exclusion of consumer transactions governed by federal law 115 CHAPTER Issue and Acceptance of Payment Order Security procedures Authorized and verified payment orders Unenforceability of certain verified payment orders Refund of payment and duty of customer to report with respect to unauthorized payment order Erroneous payment orders Transmission of payment order through funds-transfer or other communication system Misdescription of beneficiary Misdescription of intermediary bank or beneficiary s bank Acceptance of payment order Rejection of payment order Cancellation and amendment of payment order Liability and duty of receiving bank regarding unaccepted payment order 122 CHAPTER Execution of Sender s Payment Order by Receiving Bank Execution and execution date Obligation of receiving bank in execution of payable order Erroneous execution of payment order Duty of sender to report erroneously executed payment order Liability for late or improper execution or failure to execute payment order 125 CHAPTER Payment Payment date Obligation of sender to pay receiving bank Payment by sender to receiving bank Obligation of beneficiary s bank to pay and give notice to beneficiary Payment by beneficiary s bank to beneficiary Payment by originator to beneficiary Discharge of underlying obligation 128 CHAPTER Miscellaneous Provisions Variation by agreement and effect of funds-transfer system rule Creditor process served on receiving bank Setoff by beneficiary s bank Injunction or restraining order with respect to funds transfer Order in which items and payment orders may be charged to account; Order of withdrawals from account Preclusion of objection to debit of customer s account Rate of Interest 130 CHAPTER ix

10 Letters of Credit Short title Scope Definitions Formal requirements; Signing Consideration Time and effect of establishment of credit Advice of credit; Confirmation; Error in statement of terms Notable credit ; Exhaustion of credit Issuer s obligation to its customer Availability of credit in portions; Presenters reservation of lien or claim Warranties on transfer and presentment Time allowed for honor or rejection; Withholding honor or rejection by consent; Presenter Indemnities Issuer s duty and privilege to honor; Right to reimbursement Remedy for improper dishonoror anticipatory repudiation Transfer and assignment Insolvency of bank holding funds for documentary credit 136 CHAPTER Reserved CHAPTER Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title Short title Definitions; Index of definitions Relation of article to treaty, statute, tariff, classification or regulation Negotiable and nonnegotiable warehouse receipt, bill of lading or other document of title Construction against negative implication 137 CHAPTER Warehouse Receipts; Special Provisions Who may issue a warehouse receipt; Storage under government bond Form of warehouse receipt; Essential terms; Optional terms Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription Duty of care; Contractual limitation of warehouseman s liability Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases Termination of storage at warehouseman s options Goods must be kept separate; Fungible goods Altered warehouse receipts Lien of warehouseman Enforcement of warehouseman s liens 141 CHAPTER Bills of Lading: Special Provisions Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription; Said to contain ; Shipper s load and count ; Improper handling Through bills of lading and similar documents Diversion; Reconsignment; Change of instructions Bills of lading in a set 143 x

11 Destination bills Altered bills of lading Lien of carrier Enforcement of carrier s lien 144 CHAPTER Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: General Obligations Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer Duplicate receipt or bill; Over issue Obligation of warehouseman or carrier to deliver; Excuse No liability for good faith delivery pursuant to receipt or bill 146 CHAPTER Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Negotiation of Transfer Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation Rights acquired by due negotiation Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases Rights acquired in the absence of due negotiation; Effect of diversion; Seller s stoppage of delivery Endorser not a guarantor for other parties Delivery without endorsement Right to compel endorsement Warranties on negotiations or transfer of receipt or bill Warranties of collecting bank as to documents Receipt or bill When adequate compliance with commercial contract 148 CHAPTER Warehouse Receipts and Bills of Lading: Miscellaneous Provisions Lost or missing documents Attachment of goods covered by a negotiable document Conflicting claims; Interpleader 149 CHAPTER Investment Securities Short title Definitions; Index of definitions Issuer s lien Effect of over issue; Over issue Certificated securities negotiable; Statements and instructions not negotiable; Presumptions Applicability Securities transferable; Auction for price Registration of pledge and release of uncertificated securities 152 CHAPTER Issue; Issuer Issuer Issuer s responsibility and defenses Notice of defect or defense Staleness as notice of defects or defenses A staleness as notice of defects or defenses Effect of issuer s restrictions on transfer Effect of unauthorized signature on certified security or initial transaction statement 154 xi

12 Completion or alteration of certificated security or initial transaction statement Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners and registered pledges Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent 156 CHAPTER Transfer Rights acquired by purchaser Bona fide purchaser ; Adverse claim ; Title acquired by bona fide purchaser Broker Notice to purchaser of adverse claims Staleness as notice of adverse claims Warranties on presentment and transfer of certificated securities; Warranties of originators of instructions Effect of delivery without endorsement Right to compel endorsement Endorsements; Instructions Effect of endorsement without delivery Endorsement of certificated security in bearer form Effect of unauthorized endorsement or instruction Effect of guaranteeing signature, endorsement or instruction When transfer to purchaser occurs; Financial intermediary as bona fide purchaser Financial intermediary Duty to transfer; When completed Action against transferee based upon wrongful transfer Purchaser s rights to requisites for registration of transfer, pledge or release on books Creditor s rights No conversion by good faith conduct Statute of frauds Transfer or pledge within central depository system List of depositors with clearing corporation furnished to issuer on request; Fee Enforceability, attachment, perfection and termination of security interests 166 CHAPTER Registration Duty of issuer to register transfer, pledge, or release Assurance that endorsements and instructions are effective Issuer s duty as to adverse claims Liability and non-liability for registration Lost, destroyed, and stolen certificated securities Duty of authenticating trustee, transfer agent or registrar Exchangeability of securities Statements of uncertificated securities 171 CHAPTER Secured Transactions Short title Policy and scope of article Perfection of security interest in multiple state transactions 173 xii

13 Transactions excluded from article Definitions; Index of definitions Definitions; Account ; General intangibles Definitions; Purchase money security interest When after-acquired collateral not security for antecedent debt Classification of goods; Consumer goods ; Equipment ; Farm products ; Inventory Sufficiency of description Section reserved Where collateral is not owned by debtor Security interests arising under articles on sales and leases Consignment 179 CHAPTER Validity of Security Agreement and Rights of Parties General validity of security agreement Title to collateral inmaterial Attachment and enforceability of security interest; Proceeds; Formal requisites After-acquired property; Future advances Use or disposition of collateral without accounting permissible Agreement not to assert defenses against assignee; Modification of sales warranties where security agreement exists Rights and duties when collateral is in secured party s possession Request for statement of account or list of collateral 181 CHAPTER Rights of Third Parties; Perfected and Unperfected Security Interests; Rules of Priority Persons who take priority over unperfected security interests; Lien creditor When filing is required to perfect security interest; Security interests to which filing provisions of this article do not apply When security interest is perfected; Continuity of Perfection Perfection of security interest in instruments, documents, and goods covered by documents; Perfection by permissive filing; Temporary perfection without filing or transfer of possession When possession by secured party perfects security interest without filing Proceeds ; Secured party s rights on disposition of collateral Protection of buyers of goods Purchase of chattel paper and instruments Protection of purchasers of instruments, documents and securities Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law Alienability of debtor s rights; Judicial process Priorities among conflicting security interests in the same collateral 187 xiii

14 Priority of security interests in fixtures Accessions Priority when goods are commingled or processed Priority subject to subordination Secured party not obligated on contract of debtor Defenses against assignee; Modification of contract after notification of assignment; Term prohibiting assignment ineffective; Identification and proof of assignment 190 CHAPTER Filing Place of filing; Erroneous filing; Removal of collateral Section reserved What constitutes filing; Duration of filing; Effect of lapsed filing; Duties or filing officer; Filing fee; Centralized computer system Termination statement Assignment of security interest; Duties of filing officer; Fees Release of collateral; Duties of filing officer; Fees Reserved Financing statements covering consignment or leased goods 196 CHAPTER Default Financing statements covering consigned or leased goods Collection rights of secured party Secured party s right to take possession after default Secured party s right to dispose of collateral after default; Effect of disposition Compulsory disposition of collateral; Acceptance of the collateral as discharge of obligation Debtor s right to redeem collateral Secured party s liability for failure to comply with this Part 199 xiv

15 TITLE 24 COMMERCIAL CODE CHAPTER General Provisions Short title; Construction, Application and subject matter or the act. This title shall be known and may be cited as the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Commercial Code Purposes; Rules of construction; Variation by agreement. 1. This Code shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are: 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; c. to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions. 2. The effect of provisions of this Code may be varied by agreement, except as otherwise provided in this Code and except that the obligations of good faith, diligence, reasonableness and care prescribed by this Code may not be disclaimed by agreement but the parties may by agreement determine the standards by which the performance of such obligations is to be measured if such standards are not manifestly unreasonable. 3. The presence in certain provisions of this Code of the words "unless otherwise agreed" or words of similar import does not imply that the effect of other provisions may not be varied by agreement under Subsection (2). 4. In this Code unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular, and words of the masculine gender include the feminine and the neuter Supplementary general principles of law applicable. Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this title, 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, or other validating or invalidating cause shall supplement its provisions Construction against implicit repeal. This Code being a general code intended as a unified coverage of its subject matter, no part of it shall be deemed to be impliedly repealed by subsequent legislation if such construction can reasonably be avoided Territorial application of the code; Parties' power to choose applicable law. 1. Except as provided hereafter in this section, when a transaction bears a reasonable relation to the territorial jurisdiction of the Tribe and also to another jurisdiction, state or nation the parties may agree that the law either of the Tribe or of such other jurisdiction, state or nation shall govern their rights and duties. Failing such agreement this Code applies to transactions bearing an appropriate relation to the territorial jurisdiction of the Tribe. 2. Where one of the following provisions of this Code specifies the applicable law, that provision governs and a contrary agreement is effective only to the extent permitted by the law (including the conflict of laws rules) so specified: Rights of creditors against sold goods. Section Page 1 of 200

16 Applicability of the article on leases, Chapter and Section Applicability of the articles on bank deposits and collections, Chapter 20. Governing law in the Chapter on funds transfers, Section Applicability of the Chapters on investment securities, Chapter 38. Perfection provisions of the chapter on secured transactions, Chapter Remedies to be liberally administered. 1. The remedies provided by this Code shall be liberally administered to the end that the aggrieved party may be put in as good a position as if the other party had fully performed but neither consequential or special nor penal damages may be had except as specifically provided in this Code or by other rule of law. 2. Any right or obligation declared by this Code is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it specifies a different and limited effect Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after breach. Any claim or right arising out of an alleged breach can be discharged in whole or in part without consideration by a written waiver or renunciation signed and delivered by the aggrieved party Severability. If any provision or clause of this Code or application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Code which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Code are declared to be severable Section captions. Section captions are parts of this Code General definitions and principles of interpretation. Subject to additional definitions contained in the subsequent articles of this Code which are applicable to specific articles or parts thereof, and unless the context otherwise requires, in this Code: 1. "ACTION" in the sense of a judicial proceeding includes recoup, counterclaim, setoff, suit in equity and any other proceedings in which rights are determined. 2. "AGGRIEVED PARTY" means a party entitled to resort to a remedy. 3. "AGREEMENT" means the bargain of the parties in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this Code (Section ). Whether an agreement has legal consequences is determined by the provisions of this Code, if applicable; otherwise by the law of contracts (Section ). (Compare "Contract") 4. "BANK" means any person engaged in the business of banking. 5. "BEARER" means the person in possession of an instrument, document of title, or certificated security payable to bearer or endorsed in blank. 6. "BILL OF LADING" means a document evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of transporting or forwarding goods, and includes an air bill. "Air bill" means a document serving for air transportation as a bill of lading does for marine or rail transportation, and includes an air consignment note or air waybill. 7. BRANCH" includes a separately incorporated foreign branch of a bank. Page 2 of 200

17 8. BURDEN OF ESTABLISHING" a fact means the burden of persuading the triers of fact that the existence of the fact is more probable than its nonexistence. 9. BUYER IN ORDINARY COURSE OF BUSINESS" means a person who in good faith and without knowledge that the sale to him or her is in violation of the ownership rights or security interest of a third party in the goods buys in ordinary course from a person in the business of selling goods of that kind but does not include a pawnbroker. All persons who sell minerals or the like (including oil and gas) at wellhead or mine-head shall be deemed to be persons in the business of selling goods of that kind. "Buying" may be for cash or by exchange of other property or on secured or unsecured credit and includes receiving goods or documents of title under a preexisting contract for sale but does not include a transfer in bulk or as security for or in total or partial satisfaction of a money debt. 10. CONSPICUOUS": A term or clause is conspicuous when it is so written that a reasonable person against whom it is to operate ought to have noticed it. A printed heading in capitals (as: NON-NEGOTIABLE BILL OF LADING) is conspicuous. Language in the body of a form is "conspicuous" if it is in larger or other contrasting type or color. But in a telegram any stated term is "conspicuous." Whether a term or clause is "conspicuous" or not is for decision by the court. 11. "CONTRACT" means the total legal obligation which results from the parties' agreement as affected by this Code and any other applicable rules of law. (Compare "Agreement.") 12. "CREDITOR" includes a general creditor, a secured creditor, a lien creditor and any representative of creditors, including an assignee for the benefit of creditors, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver in equity and an executor or administrator of an insolvent debtor's or assignor's estate. 13. "DEFENDANT" includes a person in the position of defendant in a crossaction or counterclaim. 14. "DELIVERY" with respect to instruments, documents of title, chattel paper or certificated securities means voluntary transfer of possession. 15. "DOCUMENT OF TITLE" includes bill of lading, dock warrant, dock receipt, warehouse receipt or order for the delivery of goods, and also any other document which in the regular course of business or financing is treated as adequately evidencing that the person in possession of it is entitled to receive, hold and dispose of the document and the goods it covers. To be a document of title a document must purport to be issued by or addressed to a bailee and purport to cover goods in the bailee's possession which are either identified or are fungible portions of an identified mass. 16. "FAULT" means wrongful act, omission or breach. 17. "FUNGIBLE" with respect to goods or securities means goods or securities of which any unit is, by nature or usage of trade, the equivalent of any other like unit. Goods which are not fungible shall be deemed fungible for the purposes of this title to the extent that under a particular agreement or document unlike units are treated as equivalents. 18. "GENUINE" means free of forgery or counterfeiting. 19. "GOOD FAITH" means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. 20. "HOLDER," with respect to a negotiable instrument, means the person who is in possession if the instrument is payable to bearer or, in the case of an instrument payable to an identified person, if the identified person is in possession. "Holder," with respect to a document of title, means the person in possession if the goods are deliverable to bearer or to the order of the person in possession. Page 3 of 200

18 21. To "HONOR" is to payor to accept and pay, or where a credit so engages to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the credit. 22. "INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS" includes any assignment for the benefit of creditors or other proceedings intended to liquidate or rehabilitate the estate of the person involved. 23. A person is "INSOLVENT" who either has ceased to pay his or her debts in the ordinary course of business or cannot pay his or her debts as they become due or is insolvent within the meaning of the federal bankruptcy law. 24. "MONEY" means a medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government as part of its currency. 25. A person has "NOTICE" of a fact when: a. He or she has actual knowledge of it; or b. He or she has received a notice or notification of it; or c. from all the facts and circumstances known to him or her at the time in question he or she has reason to know that it exists. 26. A person "KNOWS" or has "KNOWLEDGE" of a fact when he or she has actual knowledge of it. "DISCOVER" or "LEARN" or a word or phrase of similar import refers to knowledge rather than to reason to know. The time and circumstances under which a notice or notification may cease to be effective are not determined by this Code. 27. A person "NOTIFIES" or "gives" a notice or notification to another by taking such steps as may be reasonably required to inform the other in ordinary course whether or not such other actually comes to know of it. A person "receives" a notice or notification when it comes to his or her attention; or it is duly delivered at the place of business through which the contract was made or at any other place held out by him or her as the place for receipt of such communications. Notice, knowledge or a notice or notification received by an organization is effective for a particular transaction from the time when it is brought to the attention of the individual conducting that transaction, and in any event from the time when it would have been brought to his or her attention if the organization had exercised due diligence. An organization exercises due diligence if it maintains reasonable routines for communicating significant information to the person conducting the transaction and there is reasonable compliance with the routines. Due diligence does not require an individual acting for the organization to communicate information unless such communication is part of his or her regular duties or unless he or she has reason to know of the transaction and that the transaction would be materially affected by the information. 28. "ORGANIZATION" includes a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. 29. "PARTY," as distinct from "third party," means a person who has engaged in a transaction or made an agreement within this Code. 30. "PERSON" includes an individual or an organization. 31. "PRESUMPTION" or "PRESUMED" means that the trier of fact must find the existence of the fact presumed unless and until evidence is introduced which would support a finding of its nonexistence. 32. "PURCHASE" includes taking by sale, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, issue or reissue, gift or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in property. 33. "PURCHASER" means a person who takes by purchase. 34. "REMEDY" means any remedial right to which an aggrieved party is entitled with or without resort to a tribunal. Page 4 of 200

19 35. "REPRESENTATIVE" includes an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor or administrator of an estate, or any other person empowered to act for another. 36. "RIGHTS" includes remedies. 37. "SECURITY INTEREST" means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. The retention or reservation of title by a seller of goods notwithstanding shipment or delivery to the buyer (Section ) is limited in effect to a reservation of a "security interest." The term also includes any interest of a buyer of accounts or chattel paper which is subject to Chapter 9. The special circumstances of a secured transaction must be treated in accordance with Chapter 9 of this Title. Whether a transaction creates a lease or security interest is determined by the facts of each case; however, a transaction creates a security interest if the consideration the lessee is to pay the lessor for the right to possession and use of the goods is an obligation for the term of the lease not subject to termination by the lessee, and: a. the original term of the lease is equal to or greater than the remaining economic life of the goods, b. the lessee is bound to renew the lease for the remaining economic life of the goods or is bound to become the owner of the goods, c. the lessee has an option to renew the lease for the remaining economic life of the goods for no additional consideration or nominal additional consideration upon compliance with the lease agreement, or d. the lessee has an option to become the owner of the goods for no additional consideration or nominal additional consideration upon compliance with the lease agreement. A transaction does not create a security interest merely because it provides that: e. the present value of the consideration the lessee is obligated to pay the lessor for the right to possession and use of the goods is substantially equal to or is greater than the fair market value of the goods at the time the lease is entered into, f. the lessee assumes risk of loss of the goods, or agrees to pay taxes, insurance, filing, recording, or registration fees, or service or maintenance costs with respect to the goods, g. the lessee has an option to renew the lease or to become the owner of the goods, h. the lessee has an option to renew the lease for a fixed rent that is equal to or greater than the reasonably predictable fair market rent for the use of the goods for the term of the renewal at the time the option is to be performed, or i. the lessee has an option to become the owner of the goods for a fixed price that is equal to or greater than the reasonably predictable fair market value of the goods at the time the option is to be performed. For purposes of this Subsection (37): j. Additional consideration is not nominal if (i) when the option to renew the lease is granted to the lessee the rent is stated to be the fair market rent for the use of the goods for the term of the renewal determined at the time the option is to be performed, or (ii) when the option to become the owner of the goods is granted to the lessee the price is stated to be the fair market value of the goods determined at the time the option is to be performed. Additional consideration is nominal if it is less than the lessee's reasonably predictable cost of performing under the lease agreement if the option is not exercised; k. "Reasonably predictable" and "remaining economic life of the goods" are to be determined with reference to the facts and circumstances at the time the transaction is entered into; and Page 5 of 200

20 l. "Present value" means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. The discount is determined by the interest rate specified by the parties if the rate is not manifestly unreasonable at the time the transaction is entered into; otherwise, the discount is determined by a commercially reasonable rate that takes into account the facts and circumstances of each case at the time the transaction was entered into. m. "Send" in connection with any writing or notice means to deposit in the mail or deliver for transmission by any other usual means of communication with postage or cost of transmission provided for and properly addressed and in the case of an instrument to an address specified thereon or otherwise agreed, or if there be none to any address reasonable under the circumstances. The receipt of any writing or notice within the time at which it would have arrived if properly sent has the effect of a proper sending. 38. "SIGNED" includes any symbol executed or adopted by a party with present intention to authenticate a writing. 39. "SURETY" includes guarantor. 40. "TELEGRAM" includes a message transmitted by radio, teletype, cable, any mechanical method of transmission, or the like. 41. "TERM" means that portion of an agreement which relates to a particular matter. 42. "UNAUTHORIZED" signature means one made without actual, implied or apparent authority and includes a forgery. 43. "VALUE" Except as otherwise provided with respect to negotiable instruments and bank collections (Section , Section and Section ) a person gives "value" for rights if he or she acquires them a. in return for a binding commitment to extend credit or for the extension of immediately available credit whether or not drawn upon and whether or not a charge-back is provided for in the event of difficulties in collection; or b. as security for or in total or partial satisfaction of a preexisting claim; or c. by accepting delivery pursuant to a preexisting contract for purchase; or d. generally, in return for any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract. 44. "WAREHOUSE RECEIPT" means a receipt issued by a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. 45. "WRITTEN" or "WRITING" includes printing, typewriting or any other intentional reduction to tangible form Prima facie evidence by third-party documents. A document in due form purporting to be a bill of lading, policy or certificate of insurance, official weigher's or inspector's certificate, consular invoice, or any other document authorized or required by the contract to be issued by a third party shall be prima facie evidence of its own authenticity and genuineness and of the facts stated in the document by the third party Obligation of good faith. Every contract or duty within this Code imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance or enforcement Time; Reasonable time; "Seasonably." Page 6 of 200