355.2 -202 Final expression -- Parol or extrinsic evidence. Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a record 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: (1) By course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade ( KRS 355.1 -303); and (2) By evidence of consistent additional terms unless the court finds the record to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement. Effective: January 1, 2025 History: Amended 2024 Ky. Acts c h. 10, sec. 8, effective January 1, 2025. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 242, sec. 26, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 77, sec. 2 -202, effective July 1, 1960. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). Under the authority of KRS 7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has changed the internal numbering system in this statute by inserting subsection numbers [(1) and (2)] in place of paragraph designations [(a) and authority of KRS 7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has changed the internal numbering system in this statute by inserting subsection numbers [(1) and (2)] in place of paragraph designations [(a) and (b)]. The words in the text were not changed.
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