§ 2202

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 210, Sec. 8. (SB 95) Effective January 1, 2024.

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.

Other sections in Chapter 2 - Form, Formation and Readjustment of Contract

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