Section 22-114 – Supplemental Principles; Good Faith; Decision for Court; Reasonable Time; Reason to Know
(a) Unless displaced by this title, principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the common law of this State relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, and other validating or invalidating cause, supplement this title. Among the laws supplementing and not displaced by this title are […]
Section 21-119 – Severability Clause
If any provision of this title or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this title which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this title are severable.
Section 22-201 – Formal Requirements
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a contract requiring payment of a contract fee of $5,000 or more is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless: (1) The party against which enforcement is sought authenticated a record sufficient to indicate that a contract has been formed and which reasonably identifies the copy or […]
Section 21-120 – Short Title
This title may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
Section 22-202 – Formation in General
(a) A contract may be formed in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including offer and acceptance or conduct of both parties or operations of electronic agents which recognize the existence of a contract. (b) If the parties so intend, an agreement sufficient to constitute a contract may be found even if the time of its making […]
Section 22-101 – Short Title
This title may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act.
Section 22-203 – Offer and Acceptance in General
Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or the circumstances: (1) An offer to make a contract invites acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable under the circumstances. (2) An order or other offer to acquire a copy for prompt or current delivery invites acceptance by either a prompt promise to ship or a prompt […]
Section 21-107 – Provision of Information in Writing; Presentation of Records
(a) (1) If parties have agreed to conduct a transaction by electronic means and a law requires a person to provide, send, or deliver information in writing to another person, the requirement is satisfied if the information is provided, sent, or delivered in an electronic record capable of retention by the recipient at the time of receipt. […]
Section 21-108 – Attribution and Effect of Electronic Record and Electronic Signature
(a) (1) An electronic record or electronic signature is attributable to a person if it was the act of the person. (2) The act of the person may be shown in any manner, including a showing of the efficacy of any security procedure applied to determine the person to which the electronic record or electronic signature was attributable. […]
Section 21-109 – Effect of Change or Error
If a change or error in an electronic record occurs in a transmission between parties to a transaction, the following rules apply: (1) If the parties have agreed to use a security procedure to detect changes or errors and one party has conformed to the procedure, but the other party has not, and the nonconforming party […]