North Dakota Code 41-02-04 – (2-104) Between merchants, financing agency, and merchant defined
1. “Between merchants” means in any transaction with respect to which both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of merchants.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 41-02-04
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
2. “Financing agency” means a bank, finance company, or other person who in the ordinary course of business makes advances against goods or documents of title or who by arrangement with either the seller or the buyer intervenes in ordinary course to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for sale, as by purchasing or paying the seller’s draft or making advances against it or by merely taking it for collection whether or not documents of title accompany or are associated with the draft. “Financing agency” includes also a bank or other person who similarly intervenes between persons who are in the position of seller and buyer in respect to the goods (section 41-02-86).
3. “Merchant” means a person who deals in goods of the kind or otherwise by the person’s occupation holds out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed by the person’s employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by the employed person’s occupation holds out as having such knowledge or skill.