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1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Commercial Code
4. General Provisions
5. General Provisions
6. Short Titles

1. This Title 11 shall be known as and may be cited as the "Uniform Commercial Code."
2. This article shall be known as and may be cited as the "Uniform Commercial Code - General Provisions."

(Code 1933, § 109A-1 - 101, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 996, § 3A-1/SB 65.)

The 2015 amendment, effective January 1, 2016, designated the existing provisions as subsection (a), and added subsection (b).

Law reviews.

- For article, "The Good Faith Purchase Idea and the Uniform Commercial Code," see 15 Ga. L. Rev. 605 (1981).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Effect of prior case law.

- Cases dealing with rescission and with measure of damages for breach of warranty decided prior to the adoption O.C.G.A. § 11-1-101 in 1962 are not controlling in cases arising under O.C.G.A. § 11-1-101. Jacobs v. Metro Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., 125 Ga. App. 462, 188 S.E.2d 250 (1972).

Cited in Tidwell v. Slocumb (In re Ga. Steel, Inc.), 71 Bankr. 903 (Bankr. M.D. Ga. 1987); AgriCommodities, Inc. v. J. D. Heiskell & Co., 297 Ga. App. 210, 676 S.E.2d 847 (2009); Sun Nurseries, Inc. v. Lake Erma, LLC, 316 Ga. App. 832, 730 S.E.2d 556 (2012).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 11 Am. Jur. 2d, Bills and Notes, § 5.

6 Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Commercial Code, § 1:1.

C.J.S.

- 82 C.J.S., Statutes, §§ 217 et seq., 238.

U.L.A.

- Uniform Commercial Code (U.L.A.) § 1-101.

ALR.

- Recognition of action for damages for wrongful foreclosure - general views, 81 A.L.R.6th 161.

Recognition of action for damages for wrongful foreclosure - types of actions, 82 A.L.R.6th 43.

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