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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="22-106" title_number="22" title_name="Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions; Short Title and Definitions; General Scope and Terms">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This title shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Support and facilitate the realization of the full potential of computer information transactions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Clarify the law governing computer information transactions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Enable expanding commercial practice in computer information transactions by commercial usage and agreement of the parties;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Promote uniformity of the law with respect to the subject matter of this title among states that enact it; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Permit the continued expansion of commercial practices in the excluded transactions through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in § 22-113(a) of this subtitle, the use of mandatory language or the absence of a phrase such as “unless otherwise agreed” in a provision of this title does not preclude the parties from varying the effect of the provision by agreement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The fact that a provision of this title imposes a condition for a result does not by itself mean that the absence of that condition yields a different result.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>To be enforceable, a term need not be conspicuous, negotiated, or expressly assented or agreed to, unless required by applicable law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
