Remedies Flashcards
The Perfect Tender rule
1) conforming goods
2) delivered at buyer’s disposition
3) any notification reasonably necessary to enable buyer to take deliver
Define “at buyer’s disposition”
Buyer sets time, place, and manner of delivery
A buyer may inspect goods identified to the contract, and may inspect them …
Who bears the cost?
In any reasonable place and time and in any reasonable manner
Buyer, but expense are recoverable if goods do not conform and are rejected
Buyer must pay — — for — goods
Contract rate
Accepted
If non conforming goods are accepted . . . Unless . . .
Rejection is precluded if made with knowledge
Made under assumption it would be seasonably cured
Acceptance of non-conforming goods does not allow rejection, but …
Does not impair other remedies for non-conformity
If tender is accepted, what must buyer do if there is a breach?
Within a reasonable time of discover, they must notify the seller or be barred from any remedy.
2 major categories of remedies for buyers
1) buyer has accepted defective goods and cannot rightfully revoke acceptance or does not wish to do so
2) seller fails to deliver the goods or buyer properly rejects
General damages may be claimed even if not …
Foreseeable or specifically claimed
Special damages, a.k.a. —, must
Consequentialist
Foreseeable to breaching party at time of contracting
Damage calc for breach of warranty
Value of goods as they would have been—value of goods accepted
Damage calc for failure to deliver or rightful rejection
Difference between market price at time of breach—the contract price
Or
Cover: purchase substitute goods from other sources, if in good faith and commercially reasonable
Cost of cover—contract price
What is market price?
Price that existed at time of breach at place tender was to occur
When will specific performance be granted?
If goods are unique
If after reasonable effort, unable to cover because effor will be unavailing or goods have been shipped with security interest, and goods were in existence at time of contract or were identified to it
Replevin defined