Illinois Code § 810 ILCS 5/1-103

Construction of Uniform Commercial Code to promote its purposes and policies; applicability of supplemental principles o
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(a) The Uniform Commercial Code must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are:
 
 
(1) to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law 
 
governing commercial transactions;
 
 
(2) to permit the continued expansion of commercial 
 
practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and
 
 
(3) to make uniform the law among the various 
 
jurisdictions.
 
(b) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, 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.

governing commercial transactions;
practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties; and
jurisdictions.

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