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...Subordinated obligations [UCC 1-310] An obligation may be issued as subordinated to performance of another obligation of the person obligated, or a creditor may subordinate its right to performance of an obligation by agreement with either the person obligated or another creditor of the person obligated. Subordination does not create a security interest as against either the common debtor or a subordinated cre...

...Transactions entered into before 7-1-62 [UCC 10-102(2)] Transactions validly entered into before July 1, 1962, and the rights, duties, and interests flowing from them remain valid after that date and may be terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required or permitted by any statute or other law amended or repealed by Amended Senate Bill No. 5 of the 104th General Assembly as though that repeal or ...

...(A) For purposes of this section, "public record" means either of the following: (1) Any document described or referred to in section 317.08 of the Revised Code; (2) Any document the filing or recording of which is required or allowed under any provision of Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code. (B) The recording with any county recorder of any document described in division (A)(1) of this section or the filing ...

...(A) As used in sections 1302.01 to 1302.98 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Buyer" means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. (2) "Good faith" has the same meaning as in section 1301.201 of the Revised Code. (3) "Receipt" of goods means taking physical possession of them. (4) "Seller" means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. (5) "Merchant" means a person ...

...Unless the context otherwise requires, sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, apply to transactions in goods; they do not apply to any transaction which although in the form of an unconditional contract to sell or present sale is intended to operate only as a security transaction nor do sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code impair or repeal any statute regulating sales to c...

...(A) A contract for the sale of minerals or the like, including oil and gas, or a structure or its materials to be removed from realty is a contract for the sale of goods within sections 1302.01 to 1302.98 of the Revised Code, if they are to be severed by the seller but until severance a purported present sale thereof which is not effective as a transfer of an interest in land is effective only as a contract to sell. ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section a contract for the sale of goods for the price of five hundred dollars or more is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless there is some writing sufficient to indicate that a contract for sale has been made between the parties and signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by his authorized agent or broker . A writing is not insufficient becau...

...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 performance, course o...

...The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a contract for sale or an offer to buy or sell goods does not constitute the writing a sealed instrument and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to such a contract or offer.

...(A) A contract for sale of goods may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of such a contract. (B) An agreement sufficient to constitute a contract for sale may be found even though the moment of its making is undetermined. (C) Even though one or more terms are left open a contract for sale does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties...

...An offer by a merchant to buy or sell goods in a signed writing which by its terms gives assurance that it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or if no time is stated for a reasonable time, but in no event may such period of irrevocability exceed three months; but any such term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree must be separately signed by the offeror.

...(A) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances: (1) an offer to make a contract shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances; (2) an order or other offer to buy goods for prompt or current shipment shall be construed as inviting acceptance either by a prompt promise to ship or by the prompt or current shipment of conforming ...

...(A) A definite and seasonable expression of acceptance or a written confirmation that is sent within a reasonable time operates as an acceptance even though it states terms additional or different from those offered or agreed upon, unless acceptance is expressly made conditional on assent to the additional or different terms. (B) The additional terms are to be construed as proposals for addition to the contract. Bet...

...(A) An agreement modifying a contract within sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, needs no consideration to be binding. (B) A signed agreement which excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing cannot be otherwise modified or rescinded, but except as between merchants such a requirement on a form supplied by the merchant must be separately signed by the other party. (C) The...

...(A) A party may perform the party's duty through a delegate unless otherwise agreed or unless the other party has a substantial interest in having the original promisor perform or control the acts required by the contract. No delegation of performance relieves the party delegating of any duty to perform or any liability for breach. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 1309.406 of the Revised Code, unless...

...The obligation of the seller is to transfer and deliver and that of the buyer is to accept and pay in accordance with the contract.

...(A) If the court as a matter of law finds the contract or any clause of the contract to have been unconscionable at the time it was made the court may refuse to enforce the contract or it may enforce the remainder of the contract without the unconscionable clause, or it may so limit the application of any unconscionable clause as to avoid any unconscionable result. (B) When it is claimed or appears to the court that...

...Where the provisions of sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code allocate a risk or a burden as between the parties "unless otherwise agreed" the agreement may not only shift the allocation but may also divide the risk or burden.

...(A) The price can be made payable in money or otherwise. If it is payable in whole or in part in goods each party is a seller of the goods which he is to transfer. (B) Even though all or part of the price is payable in an interest in realty the transfer of the goods and the seller's obligations with reference to them are subject to sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, but not the transfer of ...

...(A) The parties if they so intend can conclude a contract for sale even though the price is not settled. In such a case the price is a reasonable price at the time for delivery if: (1) nothing is said as to price; or (2) the price is left to be agreed by the parties and they fail to agree; or (3) the price is to be fixed in terms of some agreed market or other standard as set or recorded by a third person or...

...(A) A term which measures the quantity by the output of the seller or the requirements of the buyer means such actual output or requirements as may occur in good faith, except that no quantity unreasonably disproportionate to any stated estimate or in the absence of a stated estimate to any normal or otherwise comparable prior output or requirements may be tendered or demanded. (B) A lawful agreement by either the s...

...Unless otherwise agreed all goods called for by a contract for sale must be tendered in a single delivery and payment is due only on such tender but where the circumstances give either party the right to make or demand delivery in lots the price if it can be apportioned may be demanded for each lot.

...Unless otherwise agreed: (A) the place for delivery of goods is the seller's place of business or if he has none his residence; but (B) in a contract for sale of identified goods which to the knowledge of the parties at the time of contracting are in some other place, that place is the place for their delivery; and (C) documents of title may be delivered through customary banking channels.

...(A) The time for shipment or delivery or any other action under a contract if not provided in sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code or agreed upon shall be a reasonable time. (B) Where the contract provides for successive performances but is indefinite in duration it is valid for a reasonable time but unless otherwise agreed may be terminated at any time by either party. (C) Termination of a c...

...Unless otherwise agreed: (A) Payment is due at the time and place at which the buyer is to receive the goods even though the place of shipment is the place of delivery; and (B) if the seller is authorized to send the goods the seller may ship them under reservation, and may tender the documents of title, but the buyer may inspect the goods after their arrival before payment is due unless such inspection is in...