{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-1-301","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-1-301","heading":"Territorial application of the code; parties’ power to choose applicable law.","body":"(a) Except as provided hereafter 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. Failing such agreement, the Uniform Commercial Code applies to transactions bearing an appropriate relation to this state. However, the law of the State of Mississippi shall always govern the rights and duties of the parties in regard to disclaimers of implied warranties of merchantability or fitness, limitations of remedies for breaches of implied warranties of merchantability or fitness, or the necessity for privity of contract to maintain a civil action for breach of implied warranties of merchantability or fitness notwithstanding any agreement by the parties that the laws of some other state or nation shall govern the rights and duties of the parties.\n(b) Where one (1) of the following provisions of the Uniform Commercial 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:\nRights of creditors against sold goods (Section 75-2-402).\nApplicability of the Article on Leases (Sections 75-2A-105 and 75-2A-106).\nApplicability of the Article on Bank Deposits and Collections (Section 75-4-102).\nGoverning law in the Article on Funds Transfers (Section 75-4A-507). Letters of credit (Section 75-5-116).\nApplicability of the Article on Investment Securities (Section 75-8-110).\nLaw governing perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of security interests and agricultural liens (Sections 75-9-301 through 75-9-307).","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 1. Uniform Commercial Code — Revised Article 1. General Provisions","Part 3. Territorial Applicability and General Rules."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.75.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:13Z","sha256":"838b8d99e0df6133576929991f47e5346cca049104647bc7feffb0012a1b643d","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-1-206","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-1-302","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}