California Laws: Commercial Code Sections 3101-3119
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3101
This division may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code--Negotiable Instruments. ...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3102
(a) This division applies to negotiable instruments. It does not apply to money, to payment orders governed by Division 11 (commencing with Section 11101), or...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3103
(a) In this division: (1) "Acceptor" means a drawee who has accepted a draft. (2) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3104
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), "negotiable instrument" means an unconditional promise or order to pay a fixed amount of money, with...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3105
(a) "Issue" means the first delivery of an instrument by the maker or drawer, whether to a holder or nonholder, for the purpose of giving...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3106
(a) Except as provided in this section, for the purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 3104, a promise or order is unconditional unless it states...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3107
Unless the instrument otherwise provides, an instrument that states the amount payable in foreign money may be paid in the foreign money or in an...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3108
(a) A promise or order is "payable on demand" if it (1) states that it is payable on demand or at sight, or otherwise indicates...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3109
(a) A promise or order is payable to bearer if it is any of the following: (1) States that it is payable to bearer or...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3110
(a) The person to whom an instrument is initially payable is determined by the intent of the person, whether or not authorized, signing as, or...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3111
Except as otherwise provided for items in Division 4 (commencing with Section 4101), an instrument is payable at the place of payment stated in the...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3112
(a) Unless otherwise provided in the instrument, (1) an instrument is not payable with interest, and (2) interest on an interest-bearing instrument is payable from...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3113
(a) An instrument may be antedated or postdated. The date stated determines the time of payment if the instrument is payable at a fixed period...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3114
If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers. ...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3115
(a) "Incomplete instrument" means a signed writing, whether or not issued by the signer, the contents of which show at the time of signing that...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3116
(a) Except as otherwise provided in the instrument, two or more persons who have the same liability on an instrument as makers, drawers, acceptors, indorsers...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3117
Subject to applicable law regarding exclusion of proof of contemporaneous or previous agreements, the obligation of a party to an instrument to pay the instrument...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3118
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), an action to enforce the obligation of a party to pay a note payable at a definite time...
- California Laws: Commercial Code Section 3119
In an action for breach of an obligation for which a third person is answerable over pursuant to this division or Division 4 (commencing with...