§ 15-912Title 15

Supplementary general principles of law.

Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the laws relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating causes supplement the provisions of this chapter.

Annotations

Feb. 10, 1996, D.C. Law 11-85, § 2, 42 DCR 6791
Mar. 13, 2004, D.C. Law 15-105, § 101, 51 DCR 881
Apr. 13, 2005, D.C. Law 15-354, § 85(e), 52 DCR 2638
Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 13 of the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act.
D.C. Law 15-354 substituted “this chapter” for “this subchapter”.
D.C. Law 15-105 substituted “this chapter” for “this act” in both places.
1981 Ed., § 15-912.

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