Usage of trade

Definition
: a practice or method of dealing that is regularly observed in a place, vocation, or trade and that one justifiably expects to be followed by another party to a commercial transaction
compare course of dealing course of performance
Evidence of a usage of trade may be admissible as supplementing the express terms of a disputed contract when it does not contradict them.



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