Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 2A. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE LEASES

Part 2. Formation and Construction of Lease Contract

Final Written Expression -- Parol Or Extrinsic Evidence

30-2A-202. Final written expression -- parol or extrinsic evidence. Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to such terms as are included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement but may be explained or supplemented:

(1) by course of dealing or usage of trade or by course of performance; and

(2) by evidence of consistent additional terms unless the court finds the writing to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement.

History: En. Sec. 17, Ch. 410, L. 1991.