2017 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 11 - General Provisions
Section 1103 - Construction of title to promote its purposes and policies; applicability of supplemental principles of law
§ 1103. Construction of title to promote its purposes and
policies; applicability of supplemental principles of
law.
(a) Liberal construction.--This title 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) Law and equity.--Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this title, 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.
