The Negotiable Instruments Law achieved near-universal state adoption before the UCC replaced it

Evidence

In the last decade of the century, the American Bar Association encouraged states to appoint commissioners to meet and consider the problem of uniformity. The Commissioners on Uniform State Laws produced a Negotiable Instruments Law (NIL), modeled after the English Bills of Exchange Act (1882), and with something of a nod to the California Code. The NIL became one of the most successful of the so-​called uniform laws. By 1900, many states had adopted it, and it won almost universal acceptance before it was swept away by the Uniform Commercial Code in the 1950s and 1960s. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2367

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legislatures expanded into fields courts once exclusively governed — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 455; Anyone can file UCC liens that take long to clear, enabling paper terrorism — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 674

Broader Connections

• Legislatures expanded into fields courts once exclusively governed #complicates (0.75) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 455
• Anyone can file UCC liens that take long to clear, enabling paper terrorism #responds-to (0.72) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 674