Legal Research Home > New Jersey Lawyer > Commercial Transactions > New Jersey Commercial Transactions Laws Section 12A:2-202. 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

     (a) by course of dealing or usage of trade (12A:1-205) or by course of performance (12A:2-208); and

     (b) 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.

     L.1961, c. 120, s. 2-202.

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