united-states contract-law pennsylvania
Conflicting written versus parenthetical days in a commercial contract
<p>In a commercial contract, if the written and parenthetical days in a clause are in disagreement, which takes precedence?</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/3/3-114" rel="nofollow">Uniform Commercial Code § 3-114</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code" rel="nofollow">adopted by all 50 states</a>) says:</p>

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  <p>If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and <strong>words prevail over numbers</strong>.</p>
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<p>This text is incorporated without modification in Pennsylvania in <a href="http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=13&amp;div=3&amp;chpt=31&amp;sctn=14&amp;subsctn=0" rel="nofollow">Title 13, § 3114</a>.</p>

<p>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_A._Garner" rel="nofollow">Bryan Garner</a>&mdash;I'll let his Wikipedia page speak for itself&mdash;says you should <a href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/garner/documents/section39.html" rel="nofollow">avoid word-numeral doublets</a> so that this isn't even an issue.)</p>
