Wyoming Statutes
Wyo. Stat. § 34.1-1-103 (2026)
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purposes and policies; applicability to supplemental principles
of law.
(a) This act shall be liberally construed and applied to
promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are:
(i) To simplify, clarify, and modernize the law
governing commercial transactions;
(ii) To permit the continued expansion of commercial
practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties;
and
(iii) To make uniform the law among the various
jurisdictions.
(b) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this
act, 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.Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1992–2003 · leading case: B & W Glass, Inc. v. Weather Shield Mfg., Inc., 829 P.2d 809 (Wyo. 1992).
B & W Glass, Inc. v. Weather Shield Mfg., Inc., 829 P.2d 809 (Wyo. 1992). “It points to the provisions of Wyo.Stat. § 34.1-1-103 (1991), previously codified as Wyo.”
Aztec Gas & Oil Corp. v. Roemer Oil Co., 948 P.2d 902 (Wyo. 1997). “Although the UCC generally governs transactions involving negotiable instruments, W.S. 34.1-1-103 provides that "[u]nless displaced by the particular provisions of this act * * *, the principles of law and equity * * * shall supplement its provisions.”
Johnson v. Creager, 76 P.3d 799 (Wyo. 2003). “1-1-103 (Lexis-Nexis 2008) provides: § 34.1-1-103. Supplementary general principles of law applicable.”
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