CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINAL EXPRESSION; PAROL OR EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE (§ 8.2-202)

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:

a. by course of performance, course of dealing or usage of trade (§
8.1A-303); and

b. 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.

HISTORY: 1964, c. 219; 2003, c. 353; 2024, c. 652.