Contradictory terms of instrument

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]
4. Uniform Commercial Code
5. Negotiable Instruments
6. General Provisions and Definitions
7. Contradictory terms of instrument

If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers.

(Dec. 30, 1963, 77 Stat. 677, Pub. L. 88-243, § 1; Mar. 23 1995, D.C. Law 10-249, § 2(d), 42 DCR 467.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 28:3-114.

1973 Ed., § 28:3-118.

Uniform Commercial Code Comment

Section 3-114 replaces subsections (b) and (c) of former Section 3-118.

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