Ucc vs Ucita

UCC vs UCITA

Meghann Elliott

January 27, 2010

AIU Online

Abstract

In the United States Constitution, Article 1 Section 8, the government showed its first attempt to promote uniformity in commercial laws from state to state. Then, 1949, the Uniform Commercial Code was written to unify commercial laws from state to state regarding sales and leases. In 1999, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act was written to unify rules for contracts regarding computer information transactions and licenses. While the UCC and UCITA are different, they are both attempting to provide the same thing in each state.

UCC vs UCITA

In the United States, there is the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). These two statutes are to promote uniformity of sales and leases in the commercial world from state to state. There are differences between the two, especially since one was to control commerce as a whole and the other tailor made for computer exchanges, but there are similarities as well. The greatest thing of the UCITA, enacted in 1999, is that it is proposing statutes keeping with the electronic times. Before the UCC and the UCITA, another act tried to uniform commercial transactions from state to state. There are also major differences between Article 2 of the UCC and the UCITA,

The U.S. Constitution, written and signed in 1787, included Article 1 Section 8. In this section of the constitution, the government first tried to promote uniformity in commercial laws from state to state. This section states, among other things, that “Congress shall have power to…regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes…” (U.S. Constitution, 2010). While the U.S. adopted many policies and laws governing commerce from England, this is the first instance that the U.S. adopted its own policy regarding commerce and uniformity.

There is one major difference between...