{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-2-209","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 75-2-209","heading":"Modification, rescission and waiver.","body":"(1) An agreement modifying a contract within this chapter needs no consideration to be binding.\n(2) A signed agreement which excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing cannot be otherwise modified or rescinded, but except as between merchants such a requirement on a form supplied by the merchant must be separately signed by the other party.\n(3) The requirements of the statute of frauds section of this chapter (Section 2-201) [Section 75-2-201] must be satisfied if the contract as modified is within its provisions.\n(4) Although an attempt at modification or rescission does not satisfy the requirements of subsection (2) or (3) it can operate as a waiver.\n(5) A party who has made a waiver affecting an executory portion of the contract may retract the waiver by reasonable notification received by the other party that strict performance will be required of any term waived, unless the retraction would be unjust in view of a material change of position in reliance on the waiver.","path":["Title 75. Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments","Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code — Sales","Part 2. Form, Formation and Readjustment of Contract."],"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":"de9ad5f10fe9b9afd7599db1c63b41d916063c9a20006a82397682d3f3c36856","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-2-207","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-75-2-210","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."}