The Code has been a long-term, joint project of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) and the American Law Institute (ALI). The UCC is the longest and most elaborate of the Uniform Acts. Other goals of the UCC were to modernize contract law and to allow for exceptions from the common law in contracts between merchants.Įven the confidential rough drafts of the UCC were saved and published as a 10-volume set. The UCC deals primarily with transactions involving personal property (movable property) and not real property (immovable property). The UCC achieved the goal of substantial uniformity in commercial laws and, at the same time, allowed the states the flexibility to meet local circumstances by modifying the UCC's text as enacted in each state. For example, goods may be manufactured in State A, warehoused in State B, sold from State C, and delivered in State D. The goal of harmonizing state law is important because of the prevalence of commercial transactions that extend beyond one state. jurisdictions may nonetheless be subject to different statutory interpretations by each jurisdiction's courts. Lastly, even identical language adopted by any two U.S. Additionally, some jurisdictions deviate from the official UCC by tailoring the language to meet their unique needs and preferences. At other times, adoption of revisions to the official UCC contributes to further variation. Sometimes this variation is due to alternative language found in the official UCC itself. Also, adoption of the UCC often varies from one U.S.
jurisdictions (e.g., American Samoa) have not adopted any articles in the UCC. jurisdictions (e.g., Louisiana and Puerto Rico) have not adopted all of the articles contained in the UCC, while other U.S. While largely successful at achieving this ambitious goal, some U.S. The Uniform Commercial Code ( UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of Uniform Acts that have been established as law with the goal of harmonizing the laws of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States.
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