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Wyoming · Through 2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01

Wyo. Stat. § 34.1-1-103: Construction of this act to promote its purposes and policies; applicability to supplemental principles of law.

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  1. TITLE 34.1 - UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
  2. REVISED ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
  3. PART 1. SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, APPLICATION AND SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ACT

(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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