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Lpc Commercial Law Sale of Goods

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OUTCOME | REFERENCE | 1. Advise on the types of commercial contract that businesses enter into on a day to day basis; 2. Advise on the terms needed in a sale of goods contract in order to protect the seller’s position in respect of price, payment and delivery; 3. Apply simple terms in a sale of goods contract dealing with price, payment and delivery; 4. Advise on the principal remedies available to the unpaid seller of goods; 5. Identify the terms which need to be included in a retention of title clause in order for it to work and also other terms which may be included, and advise on the effectiveness of the latter; 6. Advise on the practical application of a retention of title clause. | | …show more content…

So, delivery of the goods to the buyer does not mean that the buyer has agreed that the goods comply with the contract, ie he has not yet accepted them. Acceptance by the buyer is dealt with in s 35(1): The buyer is deemed to have accepted the goods subject to subsection (2) below— (a) when he intimates to the seller that he has accepted them, or (b) when the goods have been delivered to him and he does any act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller. When Buyer hasn’t rejected the goods – S. 35 (4): The buyer is also deemed to have accepted the goods when after the lapse of a reasonable time he retains the goods without intimating to the seller that he has rejected them. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Outcome 4 – Principle Remedies Available to Unpaid Seller of Goods ------------------------------------------------- RIGHTS OF THE SELLER ------------------------------------------------- * An unpaid seller does, of course, have the right to sue the buyer for the price. * However, in addition to this, s 39(1) gives the unpaid seller the following rights: Subject to this and any other Act, notwithstanding that the property in the goods may have passed to the

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