{"data":{"id":"us-mt/30-1-102","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"30-1-102","heading":"Purposes -- rules of construction.","body":"(1) This code must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are:\n(a) to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;\n(b) to permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties;\n(c) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.\n(2) In this code unless the context otherwise requires:\n(a) words in the singular number include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;\n(b) words of the masculine gender include the feminine and the neuter, and when the sense so indicates words of the neuter gender may refer to any gender.","path":["TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 1. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE GENERAL PROVISIONS","Part 1. Short Title, Construction, Application, and Subject Matter of the Code"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0300/chapter_0010/part_0010/section_0020/0300-0010-0010-0020.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:48Z","sha256":"73906c18cf8efef33c27b6ec6494ab5def8386846c6153bf530d89ce9579aec8","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/30-1-101","next":"us-mt/30-1-103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}