30-1-102. Purposes -- rules of construction. (1) This code must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are:
     (a) to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;
     (b) to permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties;
     (c) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
     (2) In this code unless the context otherwise requires:
     (a) words in the singular number include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;
     (b) words of the masculine gender include the feminine and the neuter, and when the sense so indicates words of the neuter gender may refer to any gender.

     History: En. Sec. 1-102, Ch. 264, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 87A-1-102; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 575, L. 2005.