Acierno v. Worthy Brothers Pipeline Corp.

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• noting that commentaries are useful aids in interpreting statutory meaning
• adopting majority rule that the adoption of the U.C.C. did not displace the common law doctrine of accord and satisfaction
• \An official comment [to the U.C.C.] written by the drafters of a statute and available to a legislature before the statute is enacted has considerable weight as an aid to statutory construction.\
• \To sustain an accord and satisfaction the party asserting it must show that there was uncertainty regarding the amount of the debt and that the uncertainty was the result of a bona fide dispute based on mutual good faith\
• relying on official commentary to uniform act

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