12A:1-103.  Supplementary general principles of law applicable
Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this Act, the principles of  law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relative to capacity to  contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress,  coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validating or invalidating cause shall  supplement its provisions.

L.1961, c. 120, s. 1-103.
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