CHAPTER 1. General Provisions and Definitions [3101. - 3119.]
Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 914, Sec. 6.
§§ 3101–3119 · 19 sections
- § 3101 This division may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code—Negotiable Instruments.
- § 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…
- § 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 payment. (3) “Drawer”…
- § 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 or…
- § 3105 (a) “Issue” means: (1) the first delivery of an instrument by the maker or drawer, whether to a holder or nonholder, for the purpose of giving rights on the…
- § 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 (1) an…
- § 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 equivalent…
- § 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 that it is payable at the will…
- § 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 to the order of bearer or otherwise…
- § 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 in the name or…
- § 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 instrument.…
- § 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…
- § 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 after date.…
- § 3114 If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over…
- § 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 it is…
- § 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…
- § 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…
- § 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 shall be commenced within…
- § 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 Section 4101),…