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Title 34.1 Uniform Commercial Code

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34.1-1-101. Short titles.

(a) This act may be cited as the Uniform Commercial Code. (b) This article may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code – General Provisions.

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34.1-1-102. Scope of article.

This article applies to a transaction to the extent that it is governed by another article of this act.

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34.1-1-103. Construction of this act to promote its

purposes and policies; applicability to supplemental principles of law. (a) This act shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are: (i) To simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions; (ii) To permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and (iii) To make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions. (b) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this act, 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.

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34.1-1-104. Construction against implied repeal.

This act being a general act intended as a unified coverage of its subject matter, no part of it shall be deemed to be impliedly repealed by subsequent legislation if such construction can reasonably be avoided.

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34.1-1-105. Severability.

If any provision or clause of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are severable.

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34.1-1-106. Use of singular and plural; gender.

(a) In this act, unless the statutory context otherwise requires: (i) Words in the singular number include the plural, and those in the plural include the singular; and (ii) Words of any gender also refer to any other gender.

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34.1-1-107. Section captions.

Section captions are part of this act.

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34.1-1-108. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.

This article modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., except that nothing in this article modifies, limits, or supersedes Section 7001(c) of that act or authorizes electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 7003(b) of that act.

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34.1-1-109. Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

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34.1-1-201. General definitions.

(a) Unless the context otherwise requires, words or phrases defined in this section, or in the additional definitions contained in other articles of this act that apply to particular articles or parts thereof, have the meanings stated. (b) Subject to definitions contained in other articles of this act that apply to particular articles or parts thereof: (i) "Action," in the sense of a judicial proceeding, includes recoupment, counterclaim, set-off, suit in equity, and any other proceeding in which rights are determined; (ii) "Aggrieved party" means a party entitled to pursue a remedy; (iii) "Agreement," as distinguished from "contract," means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade as provided in W.S. 34.1-1-303; (iv) "Bank" means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company; (v) "Bearer" means a person in control of a negotiable electronic document of title or a person in possession of a negotiable instrument, negotiable tangible document of title, or certificated security that is payable to bearer or endorsed in blank; (vi) "Bill of lading" means a document of title evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of directly or indirectly transporting or forwarding goods. The term does not include a warehouse receipt; (vii) "Branch" includes a separately incorporated foreign branch of a bank; (viii) "Burden of establishing" a fact means the burden of persuading the trier of fact that the existence of the fact is more probable than its nonexistence; (ix) "Buyer in ordinary course of business" means a person that buys goods in good faith, without knowledge that the sale violates the rights of another person in the goods, and in the ordinary course from a person, other than a pawnbroker, in the business of selling goods of that kind. A person buys goods in the ordinary course if the sale to the person comports with the usual or customary practices in the kind of business in which the seller is engaged or with the seller's own usual or customary practices. A person that sells oil, gas, or other minerals at the wellhead or minehead is a person in the business of selling goods of that kind. A buyer in ordinary course of business may buy for cash, by exchange of other property, or on secured or unsecured credit, and may acquire goods or documents of title under a preexisting contract for sale. Only a buyer that takes possession of the goods or has a right to recover the goods from the seller under article 2 may be a buyer in ordinary course of business. "Buyer in ordinary course of business" does not include a person that acquires goods in a transfer in bulk or as security for or in total or partial satisfaction of a money debt; (x) "Conspicuous," with reference to a term, means so written, displayed, or presented that a reasonable person against which it is to operate ought to have noticed it. Whether a term is "conspicuous" or not is a decision for the court. Conspicuous terms include the following: (A) A heading in capitals equal to or greater in size than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the same or lesser size; and (B) Language in the body of a record or display in larger type than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the same size, or set off from surrounding text of the same size by symbols or other marks that call attention to the language. (xi) "Consumer" means an individual who enters into a transaction primarily for personal, family, or household purposes; (xii) "Contract," as distinguished from "agreement," means the total legal obligation that results from the parties' agreement as determined by this act as supplemented by any other applicable laws; (xiii) "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; (xiv) "Defendant" includes a person in the position of defendant in a counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim; (xv) "Delivery," with respect to an electronic document of title means voluntary transfer of control and with respect to an instrument, a tangible document of title, or chattel paper, means voluntary transfer of possession; (xvi) "Document of title" means a record: (A) That in the regular course of business or financing is treated as adequately evidencing that the person in possession or control of the record is entitled to receive, control, hold and dispose of the record and the goods the record covers; and (B) That purports to be issued by or addressed to a bailee and to cover goods in the bailee's possession which are either identified or are fungible portions of an identified mass. The term includes a bill of lading, transport document, dock warrant, dock receipt, warehouse receipt and order for delivery of goods. An electronic document of title means a document of title evidenced by a record consisting of information stored in an electronic medium. A tangible document of title means a document of title evidenced by a record consisting of information that is inscribed on a tangible medium. (xvii) "Fault" means a default, breach, or wrongful act or omission; (xviii) "Fungible goods" means: (A) Goods of which any unit, by nature or usage of trade, is the equivalent of any other like unit; or (B) Goods that by agreement are treated as equivalent. (xix) "Genuine" means free of forgery or counterfeiting; (xx) "Good faith," except as otherwise provided in article 5, means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing; (xxi) "Holder" means: (A) The person in possession of a negotiable instrument that is payable either to bearer or to an identified person that is the person in possession; (B) The person in possession of a negotiable tangible document of title if the goods are deliverable either to bearer or to the order of the person in possession; or (C) The person in control of a negotiable electronic document of title. (xxii) "Insolvency proceeding" includes an assignment for the benefit of creditors or other proceeding intended to liquidate or rehabilitate the estate of the person involved; (xxiii) "Insolvent" means: (A) Having generally ceased to pay debts in the ordinary course of business other than as a result of a bona fide dispute; (B) Being unable to pay debts as they become due; or (C) Being insolvent within the meaning of federal bankruptcy law. (xxiv) "Money" means a medium of exchange currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. The term includes a monetary unit of account established by an intergovernmental organization or by agreement between two (2) or more countries; (xxv) "Organization" means a person other than an individual; (xxvi) "Party," as distinguished from "third party," means a person that has engaged in a transaction or made an agreement subject to this act; (xxvii) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity; (xxviii) "Present value" means the amount as of a date certain of one (1) or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain by use of either an interest rate specified by the parties if that rate is not manifestly unreasonable at the time the transaction is entered into or, if an interest rate is not so specified, a commercially reasonable rate that takes into account the facts and circumstances at the time the transaction is entered into; (xxix) "Purchase" means taking by sale, lease, discount, negotiation, mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, issue or reissue, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in property; (xxx) "Purchaser" means a person that takes by purchase; (xxxi) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; (xxxii) "Remedy" means any remedial right to which an aggrieved party is entitled with or without resort to a tribunal; (xxxiii) "Representative" means a person empowered to act for another, including an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor, or administrator of an estate; (xxxiv) "Right" includes remedy; (xxxv) "Security interest" means an interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation. Security interest includes any interest of a consignor and a buyer of accounts, chattel paper, a payment intangible or a promissory note in a transaction that is subject to article 9. Security interest does not include the special property interest of a buyer of goods on identification of those goods to a contract for sale under W.S. 34.1-2-401, but a buyer may also acquire a security interest by complying with article 9. Except as otherwise provided in W.S. 34.1-2-505, the right of a seller or lessor of goods under article 2 or 2A to retain or acquire possession of the goods is not a security interest, but a seller or lessor may also acquire a security interest by complying with article 9. The retention or reservation of title by a seller of goods notwithstanding shipment or delivery to the buyer under W.S. 34.1-2-401 is limited in effect to a reservation of a security interest. Whether a transaction in the form of a lease creates a security interest is determined pursuant to W.S. 34.1-1-203; (xxxvi) "Send" in connection with a writing, record, or notice means: (A) 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; or (B) In any other way to cause to be received any record or notice within the time it would have arrived if properly sent. (xxxvii) "Signed" includes using any symbol executed or adopted with present intention to adopt or accept a writing; (xxxviii) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; (xxxix) "Surety" includes a guarantor or other secondary obligor; (xl) "Term" means a portion of an agreement that relates to a particular matter; (xli) "Unauthorized signature" means a signature made without actual, implied, or apparent authority. The term includes a forgery; (xlii) "Warehouse receipt" means a document of title issued by a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire; (xliii) "Writing" includes printing, typewriting, or any other intentional reduction to tangible form. "Written" has a corresponding meaning.

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34.1-1-202. Notice; knowledge.

(a) Subject to subsection (f) of this section, a person has "notice" of a fact if the person: (i) Has actual knowledge of it; (ii) Has received a notice or notification of it; or (iii) From all the facts and circumstances known to the person at the time in question, has reason to know that it exists. (b) "Knowledge" means actual knowledge. "Knows" has a corresponding meaning. (c) "Discover," "learn," or words of similar import refer to knowledge rather than to reason to know. (d) A person "notifies" or "gives" a notice or notification to another person by taking such steps as may be reasonably required to inform the other person in ordinary course, whether or not the other person actually comes to know of it. (e) Subject to subsection (f) of this section, a person "receives" a notice or notification when: (i) It comes to that person's attention; or (ii) It is duly delivered in a form reasonable under the circumstances at the place of business through which the contract was made or at another location held out by that person as the place for receipt of such communications. (f) Notice, knowledge, or a notice or notification received by an organization is effective for a particular transaction from the time it is brought to the attention of the individual conducting that transaction and, in any event, from the time it would have been brought to the individual's 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 the communication is part of the individual's regular duties or the individual has reason to know of the transaction and that the transaction would be materially affected by the information.

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34.1-1-203. Lease distinguished from security interest.

(a) Whether a transaction in the form of a lease creates a lease or security interest is determined by the facts of each case. (b) A transaction in the form of a lease creates a security interest if the consideration that 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 and is not subject to termination by the lessee and: (i) The original term of the lease is equal to or greater than the remaining economic life of the goods; (ii) 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; (iii) The lessee has an option to renew the lease for the remaining economic life of the goods for no additional consideration or for nominal additional consideration upon compliance with the lease agreement; or (iv) The lessee has an option to become the owner of the goods for no additional consideration or for nominal additional consideration upon compliance with the lease agreement. (c) A transaction in the form of a lease does not create a security interest merely because: (i) 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; (ii) The lessee assumes risk of loss of the goods; (iii) The lessee agrees to pay, with respect to the goods, taxes, insurance, filing, recording, or registration fees, or service or maintenance costs; (iv) The lessee has an option to renew the lease or to become the owner of the goods; (v) 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 (vi) 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. (d) 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. 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. (e) The "remaining economic life of the goods" and "reasonably predictable" fair market rent, fair market value, or cost of performing under the lease agreement shall be determined with reference to the facts and circumstances at the time the transaction is entered into.

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34.1-1-204. Value.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in articles 3, 4 and 5 of this title, a person gives value for rights if the person acquires them: (i) 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; (ii) As security for, or in total or partial satisfaction of, a preexisting claim; (iii) By accepting delivery under a preexisting contract for purchase; or (iv) In return for any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract.

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34.1-1-205. Reasonable time; seasonableness.

(a) Whether a time for taking an action required by this act is reasonable depends on the nature, purpose, and circumstances of the action. (b) An action is taken seasonably if it is taken at or within the time agreed or, if no time is agreed, at or within a reasonable time.

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34.1-1-206. Presumptions.

Whenever this act creates a "presumption" with respect to a fact, or provides that a fact is "presumed," the trier of fact must find the existence of the fact unless and until evidence is introduced that supports a finding of its nonexistence.

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34.1-1-207. Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

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34.1-1-208. Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

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34.1-1-209. Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

Repealed and Recreated by Laws 2015, ch. 124, § 1.

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34.1-1-210. Applicability of other sections.

Chapter 29, title 34, Wyoming statutes shall apply to this title.

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34.1-1-301. Territorial applicability; parties' power to choose applicable law.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, when a transaction bears a reasonable relation to this state and also to another state or nation the parties may agree that the law either of this state or of such other state or nation shall govern their rights and duties. (b) In the absence of an agreement effective under subsection (a) of this section, and except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, this act applies to transactions bearing an appropriate relation to this state. (c) If one (1) of the following provisions of this act specifies the applicable law, that provision governs and a contrary agreement is effective only to the extent permitted by the law so specified: (i) W.S. 34.1-2-402; (ii) W.S. 34.1-2.A-105 and 34.1-2.A-106; (iii) W.S. 34.1-4-102; (iv) W.S 34.1-4.A-507; (v) W.S. 34.1-5-116; (vi) Reserved; (vii) W.S. 34.1-8-110; (viii) W.S. 34.1-9-301 through 34.1-9-307.

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34.1-1-302. Variation by agreement.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section or elsewhere in this act, the effect of provisions of this act may be varied by agreement. (b) The obligations of good faith, diligence, reasonableness, and care prescribed by this act may not be disclaimed by agreement. The parties, by agreement, may determine the standards by which the performance of those obligations is to be measured if those standards are not manifestly unreasonable. Whenever this act requires an action to be taken within a reasonable time, a time that is not manifestly unreasonable may be fixed by agreement. (c) The presence in certain provisions of this act of the phrase "unless otherwise agreed," or words of similar import, does not imply that the effect of other provisions may not be varied by agreement under this section.

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34.1-1-303. Course of performance; course of dealing; usage of trade.

(a) A "course of performance" is a sequence of conduct between the parties to a particular transaction that exists if: (i) The agreement of the parties with respect to the transaction involves repeated occasions for performance by a party; and (ii) The other party, with knowledge of the nature of the performance and opportunity for objection to it, accepts the performance or acquiesces in it without objection. (b) A "course of dealing" is a sequence of conduct concerning previous transactions between the parties to a particular transaction that is fairly to be regarded as establishing a common basis of understanding for interpreting their expressions and other conduct. (c) A "usage of trade" is any practice or method of dealing having such regularity of observance in a place, vocation, or trade as to justify an expectation that it will be observed with respect to the transaction in question. The existence and scope of such a usage shall be proved as facts. If it is established that such a usage is embodied in a trade code or similar record, the interpretation of the record is a question of law. (d) A course of performance or course of dealing between the parties or usage of trade in the vocation or trade in which they are engaged or of which they are or should be aware is relevant in ascertaining the meaning of the parties' agreement, may give particular meaning to specific terms of the agreement, and may supplement or qualify the terms of the agreement. A usage of trade applicable in the place in which part of the performance under the agreement is to occur may be so utilized as to that part of the performance. (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f) of this section, the express terms of an agreement and any applicable course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade shall be construed whenever reasonable as consistent with each other. If such a construction is unreasonable: (i) Express terms prevail over course of performance, course of dealing, and usage of trade; (ii) Course of performance prevails over course of dealing and usage of trade; and (iii) Course of dealing prevails over usage of trade. (f) Subject to W.S. 34.1-2-209, a course of performance is relevant to show a waiver or modification of any term inconsistent with the course of performance. (g) Evidence of a relevant usage of trade offered by one (1) party is not admissible unless that party has given the other party notice that the court finds sufficient to prevent unfair surprise to the other party.

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34.1-1-304. Obligation of good faith.

Every contract or duty within this act imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance and enforcement.

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34.1-1-305. Remedies to be liberally administered.

(a) The remedies provided by this act 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 damages nor penal damages may be had except as specifically provided in this act or by other rule of law. (b) Any right or obligation declared by this act is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it specifies a different and limited effect.

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34.1-1-306. Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after breach.

A claim or right arising out of an alleged breach may be discharged in whole or in part without consideration by agreement of the aggrieved party in an authenticated record.

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34.1-1-307. 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 is prima facie evidence of its own authenticity and genuineness and of the facts stated in the document by the third party.

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34.1-1-308. Performance or acceptance under reservation of rights.

(a) A party that with explicit reservation of rights performs or promises performance or assents to performance in a manner demanded or offered by the other party does not thereby prejudice the rights reserved. Such words as "without prejudice," "under protest," or the like are sufficient. (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to an accord and satisfaction.

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34.1-1-309. Option to accelerate at will.

A term providing that one (1) party or that party's successor in interest may accelerate payment or performance or require collateral or additional collateral "at will" or when the party "deems itself insecure," or words of similar import, means that the party has power to do so only if that party in good faith believes that the prospect of payment or performance is impaired. The burden of establishing lack of good faith is on the party against which the power has been exercised.

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34.1-1-310. Subordinated obligations.

An obligation may be issued as subordinated to performance of another obligation of the person obligated, or a creditor may subordinate its right to performance of an obligation by agreement with either the person obligated or another creditor of the person obligated. Subordination does not create a security interest as against either the common debtor or a subordinated creditor.

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34.1-2-101. Short title.

This article shall be known and may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code-Sales.

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34.1-2-102. Scope; certain security and other transactions excluded from this article.

Unless the context otherwise requires, this article applies to transactions in goods; it does not apply to any transaction which although in the form of an unconditional contract to sell or present sale is intended to operate only as security transaction nor does this article impair or repeal any statute regulating sales to consumers, farmers or other specified classes of buyers.

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34.1-2-103. Definitions and index of definitions.

(a) In this article unless the context otherwise requires: (i) "Buyer" means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods; (ii) Reserved; (iii) "Receipt" of goods means taking physical possession of them; (iv) "Seller" means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. (b) Other definitions applying to this article or to specified parts thereof, and the sections in which they appear are: "Acceptance". W.S. 34.1-2-606. "Banker's credit". W.S. 34.1-2-325. "Between merchants". W.S. 34.1-2-104. "Cancellation". W.S. 34.1-2-106(d). "Commercial unit". W.S. 34.1-2-105. "Confirmed credit". W.S. 34.1-2-325. "Conforming to contract". W.S. 34.1-2-106. "Contract for sale". W.S. 34.1-2-106. "Cover". W.S. 34.1-2-712. "Entrusting". W.S. 34.1-2-403. "Financing agency". W.S. 34.1-2-104. "Future goods". W.S. 34.1-2-105. "Goods". W.S. 34.1-2-105. "Identification". W.S. 34.1-2-501. "Installment contract". W.S. 34.1-2-612. "Letter of credit". W.S. 34.1-2-325. "Lot". W.S. 34.1-2-105. "Merchant". W.S. 34.1-2-104. "Overseas". W.S. 34.1-2-323. "Person in position of seller". W.S. 34.1-2-707. "Present sale". W.S. 34.1-2-106. "Sale". W.S. 34.1-2-106. "Sale on approval". W.S. 34.1-2-326. "Sale or return". W.S. 34.1-2-326. "Termination". W.S. 34.1-2-106. (c) "Control" as provided in W.S. 34.1-7-106 and the following definitions in other articles apply to this article: "Check". W.S. 34.1-3-104. "Consignee". W.S. 34.1-7-102. "Consignor". W.S. 34.1-7-102. "Consumer goods". W.S. 34.1-9-102. "Dishonor". W.S. 34.1-3-502. "Draft". W.S. 34.1-3-104. (d) In addition article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.

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34.1-2-104. Definitions: "Merchant"; "between merchants"; "financing agency".

(a) "Merchant" means a person who deals in goods of the kind or otherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having such knowledge or skill. (b) "Financing agency" means a bank, finance company or other person who in the ordinary course of business makes advances against goods or documents of title or who by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer intervenes in ordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for sale, as by purchasing or paying the seller's draft or making advances against it or by merely taking it for collection whether or not documents of title accompany or are associated with the draft. "Financing agency" includes also a bank or other person who similarly intervenes between persons who are in the position of seller and buyer in respect to the goods (section 34.1-2-707). (c) "Between merchants" means in any transaction with respect to which both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of merchants.

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34.1-2-105. Definitions: Transferability; "goods"; "future" goods; "lot"; "commercial unit".

(a) "Goods" means all things (including specially manufactured goods) which are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money in which the price is to be paid, investment securities (article 8) and things in action. "Goods" also includes the unborn young of animals and growing crops and other identified things attached to realty as described in the section on goods to be severed from realty (section 34.1-2-107). (b) Goods must be both existing and identified before any interest in them can pass. Goods which are not both existing and identified are "future" goods. A purported present sale of future goods or of any interest therein operates as a contract to sell. (c) There may be a sale of a part interest in existing identified goods. (d) An undivided share in an identified bulk of fungible goods is sufficiently identified to be sold although the quantity of the bulk is not determined. Any agreed proportion of such a bulk or any quantity thereof agreed upon by number, weight or other measure may to the extent of the seller's interest in the bulk be sold to the buyer who then becomes an owner in common. (e) "Lot" means a parcel or a single article which is the subject matter of a separate sale or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the contract. (f) "Commercial unit" means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of sale and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. A commercial unit may be a single article (as a machine) or a set of articles (as a suite of furniture or an assortment of sizes) or a quantity (as a bale, gross, or carload) or any other unit treated in use or in the relevant market as a single whole.

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34.1-2-106. Definitions: "Contract"; "agreement";

"contract for sale"; "sale"; "present sale"; "conforming" to contract; "termination"; "cancellation". (a) In this article unless the context otherwise requires "contract" and "agreement" are limited to those relating to the present or future sale of goods. "Contract for sale" includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. A "sale" consists in the passing of title from the seller to the buyer for a price (section 34.1-2-401). A "present sale" means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. (b) Goods or conduct including any part of a performance are "conforming" or conform to the contract when they are in accordance with the obligations under the contract. (c) "Termination" occurs when either party pursuant to a power created by agreement or law puts an end to the contract otherwise than for its breach. On "termination" all obligations which are still executory on both sides are discharged but any right based on prior breach or performance survives. (d) "Cancellation" occurs when either party puts an end to the contract for breach by the other and its effect is the same as that of "termination" except that the cancelling party also retains any remedy for breach of the whole contract or any unperformed balance.

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34.1-2-107. Goods to be severed from realty; recording.

(a) A contract for the sale of timber, minerals or the like or a structure or its materials to be removed from realty is a contract for the sale of goods within this article if they are to be severed by the seller but until severance a purported present sale thereof which is not effective as a transfer of an interest in land is effective only as a contract to sell. (b) A contract for the sale apart from the land of growing crops or other things attached to realty and capable of severance without material harm thereto but not described in subsection (a) is a contract for the sale of goods within this article whether the subject matter is to be severed by the buyer or by the seller even though it forms part of the realty at the time of contracting, and the parties can by identification effect a present sale before severance. (c) The provisions of this section are subject to any third party rights provided by the law relating to realty records, and the contract for sale may be executed and recorded as a document transferring an interest in land and shall then constitute notice to third parties of the buyer's rights under the contract for sale.

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34.1-2-201. Formal requirements; statute of frauds.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section a contract for the sale of goods for the price of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless there is some writing sufficient to indicate that a contract for sale has been made between the parties and signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by his authorized agent or broker. A writing is not insufficient because it omits or incorrectly states a term agreed upon but the contract is not enforceable under this paragraph beyond the quantity of goods shown in such writing. (b) Between merchants if within a reasonable time a writing in confirmation of the contract and sufficient against the sender is received and the party receiving it has reason to know its contents, it satisfies the requirements of subsection (a) against such party unless written notice of objection to its contents is given within ten (10) days after it is received. (c) A contract which does not satisfy the requirements of subsection (a) but which is valid in other respects is enforceable: (i) If the goods are to be specially manufactured for the buyer and are not suitable for sale to others in the ordinary course of the seller's business and the seller, before notice of repudiation is received and under circumstances which reasonably indicate that the goods are for the buyer, has made either a substantial beginning of their manufacture or commitments for their procurement; or (ii) If the party against whom enforcement is sought admits in his pleading, testimony or otherwise in court that a contract for sale was made, but the contract is not enforceable under this provision beyond the quantity of goods admitted; or (iii) With respect to goods for which payment has been made and accepted or which have been received and accepted (section 34.1-2-606).

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34.1-2-202. Final written expression; parol or extrinsic evidence.

(a) Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to such terms as are included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement but may be explained or supplemented: (i) By course of performance, course of dealing or usage of trade (section 34.1-1-303); and (ii) By evidence of consistent additional terms unless the court finds the writing to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement.

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34.1-2-203. Seals inoperative.

The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a contract for sale or an offer to buy or sell goods does not constitute the writing a sealed instrument and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to such a contract or offer.

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34.1-2-204. Formation in general.

(a) A contract for sale of goods may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of such a contract. (b) An agreement sufficient to constitute a contract for sale may be found even though the moment of its making is undetermined. (c) Even though one (1) or more terms are left open a contract for sale does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties have intended to make a contract and there is a reasonably certain basis for giving an appropriate remedy.

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