{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-1-103","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 11-1-103","heading":"Rules of construction to promote purposes and policies; applicability of supplemental principles of law.","body":"(a) This title shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies which are:\n(1) To simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;\n(2) To permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and\n(3) To make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.\n(b) 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, and other validating or invalidating cause shall supplement its provisions.","path":["TITLE 11 Commercial Code","Article 1 General Provisions","PART 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.11.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"7683c3ea60a41c4a980e2210eddf567abfa2387e34b8a1241afd37b3ae78bfe5","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-1-102","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-1-104"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}