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Note that most USA states/commonwealths adopt UCC.

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While most USA lawyers will know this as simple fact, the tutorial wants
to welcome an international audience and non-lawyers too.  As such, this
dependent clause is worth adding.
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@ -2397,7 +2397,8 @@ copyright licenses.
Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you. The
\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial
Code~\S2-316} requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
Code~\S2-316}, which most of the USA's states and commonwealths have adopted as their local
law, requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the
preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked
its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.