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MT Code § 30-2-202 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-202. Final written expression -- parol or extrinsic evidence

  30-2-202. Final written expression -- parol or extrinsic evidence. Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a writing 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 or usage of trade (30-1-205) or by course of performance (30-2-208); and   (b) by evidence of consistent additional terms unless the court finds the writing to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement.   History: En. Sec. 2-202, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-202.
MT Code § 30-2-203 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-203. Seals inoperative

  30-2-203. Seals inoperative. The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a contract for sale or an offer to buy or sell goods does not constitute the writing a sealed instrument and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to such a contract or offer.   History: En. Sec. 2-203, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-203.
MT Code § 30-2-204 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-204. Formation in general

  30-2-204. Formation in general. (1) A contract for sale of goods may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of such a contract.   (2) An agreement sufficient to constitute a contract for sale may be found even though the moment of its making is undetermined.   (3) Even though one or more terms are left open a contract for sale does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties have intended to make a contract and there is a reasonably certain basis for giving an appropriate remedy.   History: En. Sec. 2-204, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-204.
MT Code § 30-2-205 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-205. Firm offers

  30-2-205. Firm offers. An offer by a merchant to buy or sell goods in a signed writing which by its terms gives assurance that it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or if no time is stated for a reasonable time, but in no event may such period of irrevocability exceed 3 months; but any such term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree must be separately signed by the offeror.   History: En. Sec. 2-205, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-205.
MT Code § 30-2-206 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-206. Offer and acceptance in formation of contract

  30-2-206. Offer and acceptance in formation of contract. (1) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances:   (a) an offer to make a contract shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances;   (b) an order or other offer to buy goods for prompt or current shipment shall be construed as inviting acceptance either by a prompt promise to ship or by the prompt or current shipment of conforming or nonconforming goods, but such a shipment of nonconforming goods does not constitute an acceptance if the seller seasonably notifies the buyer that the shipment is offered only as an accommodation to the buyer.   (2) Where the beginning of a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance an offeror who is not notified of acceptance within a reasonable time may treat the offer as having lapsed before acceptance.   History: En. Sec. 2-206, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-206.
MT Code § 30-2-207 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-207. Additional terms in acceptance or confirmation

  30-2-207. Additional terms in acceptance or confirmation. (1) A definite and seasonable expression of acceptance or a written confirmation which is sent within a reasonable time operates as an acceptance even though it states terms additional to or different from those offered or agreed upon, unless acceptance is expressly made conditional on assent to the additional or different terms.   (2) The additional or different terms are to be construed as proposals for addition to the contract. Between merchants such terms become part of the contract unless:   (a) the offer expressly limits acceptance to the terms of the offer;   (b) they materially alter it; or   (c) notification of objection to them has already been given or is given within a reasonable time after notice of them is received.   (3) Conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of a contract is sufficient to establish a contract for sale although the writings of the parties do not otherwise establish a contract. In such case the terms of the particular contract consist of those terms on which the writings of the parties agree, together with any supplementary terms incorporated under any other provisions of this code.   History: En. Sec. 2-207, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-207; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 402, L. 1983.
MT Code § 30-2-208 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-208. Course of performance or practical construction

  30-2-208. Course of performance or practical construction. (1) Where the contract for sale involves repeated occasions for performance by either party with knowledge of the nature of the performance and opportunity for objection to it by the other, any course of performance accepted or acquiesced in without objection shall be relevant to determine the meaning of the agreement.   (2) The express terms of the agreement and any such course of performance, as well as any course of dealing and usage of trade, shall be construed whenever reasonable as consistent with each other; but when such construction is unreasonable, express terms shall control course of performance and course of performance shall control both course of dealing and usage of trade (30-1-205).   (3) Subject to the provisions of the next section on modification and waiver, such course of performance shall be relevant to show a waiver or modification of any term inconsistent with such course of performance.   History: En. Sec. 2-208, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-208.
MT Code § 30-2-209 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-209. Modification, rescission and waiver

  30-2-209. Modification, rescission and waiver. (1) An agreement modifying a contract within this chapter needs no consideration to be binding.   (2) A signed agreement which excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing cannot be otherwise modified or rescinded, but except as between merchants such a requirement on a form supplied by the merchant must be separately signed by the other party.   (3) The requirements of the statute of frauds section of this chapter (30-2-201) must be satisfied if the contract as modified is within its provisions.   (4) Although an attempt at modification or rescission does not satisfy the requirements of subsection (2) or (3) it can operate as a waiver.   (5) A party who has made a waiver affecting an executory portion of the contract may retract the waiver by reasonable notification received by the other party that strict performance will be required of any term waived, unless the retraction would be unjust in view of a material change of position in reliance on the waiver.   History: En. Sec. 2-209, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-209.
MT Code § 30-2-210 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 2. Form, Formation, and Readjustment of Contract|30-2-210. Delegation of performance -- assignment of rights

  30-2-210. Delegation of performance -- assignment of rights. (1) A party may perform the party's duty through a delegate unless otherwise agreed or unless the other party has a substantial interest in having the party's original promisor perform or control the acts required by the contract. No delegation of performance relieves the party delegating of any duty to perform or any liability for breach.   (2) Unless otherwise agreed all rights of either seller or buyer can be assigned except when the assignment would materially change the duty of the other party, or increase materially the burden or risk imposed on the other party by the contract, or impair materially the other party's chance of obtaining return performance. A right to damages for breach of the whole contract or a right arising out of the assignor's due performance of the assignor's entire obligation can be assigned despite agreement otherwise.   (3) The creation, attachment, perfection, or enforcement of a security interest in the seller's interest under a contract is not a transfer that materially changes the duty of or increases materially the burden or risk imposed on the buyer or impairs materially the buyer's chance of obtaining return performance within the purview of subsection (2) unless, and then only to the extent that, enforcement actually results in a delegation of material performance of the seller. Even in that event, the creation, attachment, perfection, and enforcement of the security interest remain effective, but:   (a) the seller is liable to the buyer for damages caused by the delegation to the extent that the damages could not reasonably be prevented by the buyer; and   (b) a court having jurisdiction may grant other appropriate relief, including cancellation of the contract for sale or an injunction against enforcement of the security interest or consummation of the enforcement.   (4) Unless the circumstances indicate the contrary a prohibition of assignment of "the contract" is to be construed as barring only the delegation to the assignee of the assignor's performance.   (5) An assignment of "the contract" or of "all my rights under the contract" or an assignment in similar general terms is an assignment of rights and unless the language or the circumstances (as in an assignment for security) indicate the contrary, it is a delegation of performance of the duties of the assignor and its acceptance by the assignee constitutes a promise by the assignee to perform those duties. This promise is enforceable by either the assignor or the other party to the original contract.   (6) The other party may treat any assignment that delegates performance as creating reasonable grounds for insecurity and may without prejudice to the other party's rights against the assignor demand assurances from the assignee (30-2-609).   History: En. Sec. 2-210, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-210; amd. Sec. 133, Ch. 305, L. 1999.
MT Code § 30-2-301 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-301. General obligations of parties

  30-2-301. General obligations of parties. The obligation of the seller is to transfer and deliver and that of the buyer is to accept and pay in accordance with the contract.   History: En. Sec. 2-301, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-301.
MT Code § 30-2-302 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-302. Unconscionable contract or clause

  30-2-302. Unconscionable contract or clause. (1) If the court as a matter of law finds the contract or any clause of the contract to have been unconscionable at the time it was made the court may refuse to enforce the contract, or it may enforce the remainder of the contract without the unconscionable clause, or it may so limit the application of any unconscionable clause as to avoid any unconscionable result.   (2) When it is claimed or appears to the court that the contract or any clause thereof may be unconscionable the parties shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to present evidence as to its commercial setting, purpose and effect to aid the court in making the determination.   History: En. Sec. 2-302, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-302.
MT Code § 30-2-303 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-303. Allocation or division of risks

  30-2-303. Allocation or division of risks. Where this chapter allocates a risk or a burden as between the parties "unless otherwise agreed", the agreement may not only shift the allocation but may also divide the risk or burden.   History: En. Sec. 2-303, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-303.
MT Code § 30-2-304 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-304. Price payable in money, goods, realty, or otherwise

  30-2-304. Price payable in money, goods, realty, or otherwise. (1) The price can be made payable in money or otherwise. If it is payable in whole or in part in goods each party is a seller of the goods which that party is to transfer.   (2) Even though all or part of the price is payable in an interest in realty the transfer of the goods and the seller's obligations with reference to them are subject to this chapter, but not the transfer of the interest in realty or the transferor's obligations in connection with the transfer.   History: En. Sec. 2-304, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-304; amd. Sec. 839, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 30-2-305 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-305. Open price term

  30-2-305. Open price term. (1) The parties if they so intend can conclude a contract for sale even though the price is not settled. In such a case the price is a reasonable price at the time for delivery if:   (a) nothing is said as to price; or   (b) the price is left to be agreed by the parties and they fail to agree; or   (c) the price is to be fixed in terms of some agreed market or other standard as set or recorded by a third person or agency and it is not so set or recorded.   (2) A price to be fixed by the seller or by the buyer means a price to be fixed in good faith.   (3) When a price left to be fixed otherwise than by agreement of the parties fails to be fixed through fault of one party the other may at the party's option treat the contract as canceled or the party may fix a reasonable price.   (4) Where, however, the parties intend not to be bound unless the price be fixed or agreed and it is not fixed or agreed there is no contract. In such a case the buyer must return any goods already received or if unable so to do must pay their reasonable value at the time of delivery and the seller must return any portion of the price paid on account.   History: En. Sec. 2-305, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-305; amd. Sec. 840, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 30-2-306 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-306. Output, requirements and exclusive dealings

  30-2-306. Output, requirements and exclusive dealings. (1) A term which measures the quantity by the output of the seller or the requirements of the buyer means such actual output or requirements as may occur in good faith, except that no quantity unreasonably disproportionate to any stated estimate or in the absence of a stated estimate to any normal or otherwise comparable prior output or requirements may be tendered or demanded.   (2) A lawful agreement by either the seller or the buyer for exclusive dealing in the kind of goods concerned imposes unless otherwise agreed an obligation by the seller to use best efforts to supply the goods and by the buyer to use best efforts to promote their sale.   History: En. Sec. 2-306, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-306.
MT Code § 30-2-307 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-307. Delivery in single lot or several lots

  30-2-307. Delivery in single lot or several lots. Unless otherwise agreed all goods called for by a contract for sale must be tendered in a single delivery and payment is due only on such tender but where the circumstances give either party the right to make or demand delivery in lots the price if it can be apportioned may be demanded for each lot.   History: En. Sec. 2-307, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-307.
MT Code § 30-2-308 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-308. Absence of specified place for delivery

  30-2-308. Absence of specified place for delivery. Unless otherwise agreed:   (a) the place for delivery of goods is the seller's place of business or if none, the seller's residence; but   (b) in a contract for sale of identified goods which to the knowledge of the parties at the time of contracting are in some other place, that place is the place for their delivery; and   (c) documents of title may be delivered through customary banking channels.   History: En. Sec. 2-308, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-308; amd. Sec. 841, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 30-2-309 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-309. Absence of specific time provisions -- notice of termination

  30-2-309. Absence of specific time provisions -- notice of termination. (1) The time for shipment or delivery or any other action under a contract if not provided in this chapter or agreed upon shall be a reasonable time.   (2) Where the contract provides for successive performances but is indefinite in duration it is valid for a reasonable time but unless otherwise agreed may be terminated at any time by either party.   (3) Termination of a contract by one party except on the happening of an agreed event requires that reasonable notification be received by the other party and an agreement dispensing with notification is invalid if its operation would be unconscionable.   History: En. Sec. 2-309, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-309.
MT Code § 30-2-310 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-310. Open time for payment or running of credit -- authority to ship under reservation

  30-2-310. Open time for payment or running of credit -- authority to ship under reservation. Unless otherwise agreed:   (1) payment is due at the time and place at which the buyer is to receive the goods even though the place of shipment is the place of delivery; and   (2) if the seller is authorized to send the goods the seller may ship them under reservation, and may tender the documents of title, but the buyer may inspect the goods after their arrival before payment is due unless such inspection is inconsistent with the terms of the contract (30-2-513); and   (3) if delivery is authorized and made by way of documents of title otherwise than by subsection (2) then payment is due regardless of where the goods are to be received:   (a) at the time and place at which the buyer is to receive delivery of the tangible documents;   (b) at the time the buyer is to receive delivery of the electronic documents and at the seller's place of business or, if none, the seller's residence; and   (4) where the seller is required or authorized to ship the goods on credit the credit period runs from the time of shipment but postdating the invoice or delaying its dispatch will correspondingly delay the starting of the credit period.   History: En. Sec. 2-310, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-310; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 575, L. 2005.
MT Code § 30-2-311 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-311. Options and cooperation respecting performance

  30-2-311. Options and cooperation respecting performance. (1) An agreement for sale which is otherwise sufficiently definite (subsection (3) of 30-2-204) to be a contract is not made invalid by the fact that it leaves particulars of performance to be specified by one of the parties. Any such specification must be made in good faith and within limits set by commercial reasonableness.   (2) Unless otherwise agreed specifications relating to assortment of the goods are at the buyer's option and except as otherwise provided in subsections (1)(c) and (3) of 30-2-319 specifications or arrangements relating to shipment are at the seller's option.   (3) Where the specification would materially affect the other party's performance but is not seasonably made or where one party's cooperation is necessary to the agreed performance of the other but is not seasonably forthcoming, the other party in addition to all other remedies:   (a) is excused for any resulting delay in that party's own performance; and   (b) may also either proceed to perform in any reasonable manner or after the time for a material part of that party's own performance treat the failure to specify or to cooperate as a breach by failure to deliver or accept the goods.   History: En. Sec. 2-311, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-311; amd. Sec. 842, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
MT Code § 30-2-312 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 30. Trade and Commerce|Chapter 2. Uniform Commercial Code Sales|Part 3. General Obligation and Construction of Contract|30-2-312. Warranty of title and against infringement -- buyer's obligation against infringement

  30-2-312. Warranty of title and against infringement -- buyer's obligation against infringement. (1) Subject to subsection (2) there is in a contract for sale a warranty by the seller that:   (a) the title conveyed shall be good, and its transfer rightful; and   (b) the goods shall be delivered free from any security interest or other lien or encumbrance of which the buyer at the time of contracting has no knowledge.   (2) A warranty under subsection (1) will be excluded or modified only by specific language or by circumstances which give the buyer reason to know that the person selling does not claim title or that the seller is purporting to sell only the right or title as the seller or a third person may have.   (3) Unless otherwise agreed a seller who is a merchant regularly dealing in goods of the kind warrants that the goods shall be delivered free of the rightful claim of any third person by way of infringement or the like but a buyer who furnishes specifications to the seller must hold the seller harmless against any such claim which arises out of compliance with the specifications.   History: En. Sec. 2-312, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-2-312; amd. Sec. 843, Ch. 56, L. 2009.