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UCC contract formation
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a multistate legislative effort to develop various kinds of commercial laws that all or nearly all states will adopt with as little variation as possible, to encourage interstate commerce and reduce unpredictability and variation in the law applicable to commercial transactions. Article 2 governs sales of goods, as covered in Section 2-102. (Each section of the UCC is typically cited by reference to the article it is in (here, article 2), followed by the section, for 2-102.)
The UCC was not (as with the Restatements) generally intended to simply track prior common law, but was deliberately designed to deviate from some common law contract law principles, while preserving the common law otherwise if not addressed in the UCC itself.
Article 2 of the UCC was initially approved in 1956.
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