2011 Connecticut Code
Title 42a Uniform Commercial Code
Article 3 Negotiable Instruments
Sec. 42a-3-114. Contradictory terms of instrument.

      Sec. 42a-3-114. Contradictory terms of instrument. If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers.

      (1959, P.A. 133, S. 3-114; P.A. 91-304, S. 14.)

      History: P.A. 91-304 entirely replaced former provisions re the date of an instrument with provisions re contradictory terms, a restatement of Sec. 42a-3-118(b) and (c), revised to 1991.

      See Sec. 42a-3-113(a) for successor provisions to Sec. 42a-3-114(2), revised to 1991, re an antedated or postdated instrument.

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