Com. Code, § 2202 · Chapter 2. Form, Formation and Readjustment of Contract
Com. Code, § 2202
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a record intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to such terms as are included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement but may be explained or supplemented:
(a) By course of dealing, course of performance, or usage of trade (Section 1303); and
(b) By evidence of consistent additional terms unless the court finds the record to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 210, Sec. 8. (SB 95) Effective January 1, 2024.
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