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R.I. Gen. Laws § 6A-1-103 (2026)

Construction of Uniform Commercial Code to promote its purposes and policies — Applicability of supplemental principles of law

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(a) Title 6A 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 title 6A, 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.

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Cited in 1 case, 2001–2001 · leading case: Allstate Ins. v. Lombardi, 773 A.2d 864 (R.I. 2001).
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Allstate Ins. v. Lombardi, 773 A.2d 864 (R.I. 2001). · cites it 4× “1956 § 6A-3-112(1)(f) (providing that negotiability of an instrument is not affected by "[a] term in a draft providing that the payee by indorsing or cashing it acknowledges full satisfaction of an obligation of the drawer"); G.L.1956 § 6A-1-103 ("Unless displaced by the…”
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