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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69384</law_id><section_number>8.3A-114</section_number><catch_line>Contradictory terms of instrument</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.3A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Negotiable Instruments</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions and Definitions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 6-369, 6-420; 1964, c. 219, &#xA7; 8.3-118; 1992, c. 693.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
