Uniform commercial code
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- Black's law dict., 5th ed., 1979:(Uniform Commercial Code; drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The U.C.C. has been adopted by all states except Louisiana)
- Martindale-Hubbell, 1990, v.8:(Uniform Commercial Code is the result of the joint efforts of the American Law Institute and the National Conf. of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. These orgs. labored on the code together from 1943 until its final adoption by both bodiesin Sept. 1951. A critical examination of the code by the NY Law Revision Commission ... led to the revision by the code's Editorial Board. The revision was promulgated in 1956)
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been established as law with the goal of harmonizing the laws of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States. While largely successful at achieving this ambitious goal, some U.S. jurisdictions (e.g., Louisiana and Puerto Rico) have not adopted all of the articles contained in the UCC, while other U.S. jurisdictions (e.g., American Samoa) have not adopted any articles in the UCC. Also, adoption of the UCC often varies from one U.S. jurisdiction to another. Sometimes this variation is due to alternative language found in the official UCC itself. At other times, adoption of revisions to the official UCC contributes to further variation. Additionally, some jurisdictions deviate from the official UCC by tailoring the language to meet their unique needs and preferences. Lastly, even identical language adopted by any two U.S. jurisdictions may nonetheless be subject to different statutory interpretations by each jurisdiction's courts.
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