CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINAL WRITTEN 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 writing 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
   writing to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of
   the terms of the agreement.

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