Date of instrument
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 75–75 (480 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Dejean v. Dejean (2007)
Most recently applied in Dejean v. Dejean (October 2007)
Former § 75-3-113: Codes, 1942, § 41A:3-113; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 3-113; Laws, 1992, ch. 420, § 13, eff from and after January 1, 1993.
An instrument may be antedated or postdated. The date stated determines the time of payment if the instrument is payable at a fixed period after date. Except as provided in Section 75-4-401(c), an instrument payable on demand is not payable before the date of the instrument.
If an instrument is undated, its date is the date of its issue or, in the case of an unissued instrument, the date it first comes into possession of a holder.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.