US Lawyer Database

§ 1542. Effect of currency revalorizations

(a) If, after an obligation is expressed or a loss is incurred in a foreign money, the country issuing or adopting that money substituted a new money in place of that money, the obligation or the loss is treated as if expressed or incurred in the new money at the rate of conversion the issuing […]

§ 1543. Supplementary general principles of law

Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, 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, or other validating or invalidating causes, supplement its provisions.

§ 1544. Uniformity of application and construction

The provisions of this chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states and territories enacting it.

§ 1545. Severability clause

If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.

§ 1533. Variation by agreement

(a) The effect of provisions of this chapter may be varied by agreement of the parties made at any time before or after commencement of an action, distribution, or the entry of judgment. (b) The parties may agree upon the money to be used in a transaction giving rise to a foreign-money claim and may […]

§ 1534. Determining the money of the claim

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, the proper money of the claim is, as in each case may be appropriate, the money: (1) regularly used between the parties as a matter of usage or course of dealing; or (2) used at the time of a transaction in international trade, by trade usage or […]

§ 1535. Determining the amount of the money of certain contract claims

(a) If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is measured by a specified amount of a different money, the amount to be paid is determined on the conversion date. (b) If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is to be measured by a different money at the […]

§ 1536. Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim

(a) A claimant may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign money is not asserted, the claimant makes a claim for a judgment in United States dollars. (b) An opposing party may allege and prove that the claim is, in whole or in part, for a different money than that asserted […]