For businesses operating in Florida, familiarity with commercial codes is essential knowledge. These are a set of laws and rules that govern business transactions and other elements of operations, like contracting. They apply to businesses in all 50 states.
The Universal Commercial Codes
The Universal Commercial Codes, or sometimes abbreviated the UCC, is a long list of regulations that tell businesses how to settle disputes on contracts, when contracts start and end, how to decide who owns an asset, managing transaction errors, and settling disputes in existing contracts. The details of the transactions involved can be quite precise. For example, the UCC explains how to manage liability when the bill of lading for a physical delivery goes missing during transit. For just about any kind of transaction, there will be a section of the UCC that governs how to proceed when it goes wrong in various ways.
Contracts
One of the most important parts of the UCC is its theme of contracts. The UCC provides the legal basis for how contracts operate, when they take effect, when they are fulfilled, and when they are breached. A contract breach is grounds for potential commercial litigation, so businesses will refer to them when deciding whether a breach has taken place and how to proceed. This provides a common ground and reference point for all legal entities who might be parties to a lawsuit.
With the help of the UCC, business owners and managers know that their peers in other companies all work on the same legal environment and have the same expectations about how contracts should work.
