Sales, Pledge & Mortgage Flashcards
A contract where one party obligates himself to transfer the ownership of and to deliver a determinate thing, while the other party obligates himself to pay for said thing a price certain in money or its equivalent.
Sale
The contract is not subject to any condition and title passes to the buyer upon delivery of the thing.
Absolute Sale
The contract contemplates a contingency, usually payment of the price.
Conditional Sale
A stipulation stating that despite delivery, the ownership of the thing shall remain with the seller until the buyer has fully paid the price.
Contractual Reservation of Title
pactum reservati dominii
A contract by virtue of which one person transfers to another his rights and actions againts a third person in consideration of a price certain in money or its equivalent.
Assignment of Credit
One of the parties binds himself to give one thing in consideration of the other’s promise to give another thing.
Barter
An unaccepted unilateral promise to buy or sell a thing.
Policitacion
An accepted unilateral promise to buy or to sell which is not binding upon the promissory unless supported by a consideration separate and distinct from the purchase price.
Option Contract
Partial payment of the purchase price
Earnest money
Persons who have no intention to buy but are employed by the seller in auction sale to raise the price by fictitious bids.
By-bidding or puffing
The option to return to the seller the property sold to the buyer instead of paying the price.
Sale or return
There is delivery to the buyer but he has an option to purchase if the goods prove satisfactory therefore ownership shall be reserved to the seller until acceptance by the buyer.
Sale on Trial, Satisfaction or Approval
If the thing is particularly made/manufactured for a specific person only
Contract for a Piece of Work
Massachusetts Rule
- One who has not been paid or tendered the whole price
- One who has received a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument as conditional payment and the condition on which it was received has been broken by reason of dishonor of the instrument
Unpaid Seller of Goods
Goods are in transit from the time they are delivered to the carrier for the purpose of delivery to the buyer or his agent
Stoppage in transitu