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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 11 - Commercial Code » Article 2A - Leases » Part 2 - Formation and Construction of Lease Contract

§ 11-2A-201. Statute of Frauds

A lease contract is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless: The total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, are less than $1,000; or There is a writing, signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by that party’s authorized agent, […]

§ 11-2A-202. Final Written Expression: Parole or Extrinsic Evidence

Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to such terms as are included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous […]

§ 11-2A-203. Seals Inoperative

The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a lease contract or an offer to enter into a lease contract does not render the writing a sealed instrument and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to the lease contract or offer. History. Code 1981, § 11-2A-203 , enacted by Ga. […]

§ 11-2A-204. Formation in General

A lease contract may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of a lease contract. An agreement sufficient to constitute a lease contract may be found although the moment of its making is undetermined. Although one or more terms are left open, a lease […]

§ 11-2A-205. Firm Offers

An offer by a merchant to lease goods to or from another person in a signed writing that by its terms gives assurance it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or, if no time is stated, for a reasonable time, but in no event may the […]

§ 11-2A-206. Offer and Acceptance in Formation of Lease Contract

Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances, an offer to make a lease contract must be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances. If the beginning of a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance, an offeror who is not notified of acceptance within […]

§ 11-2A-208. Modification, Rescission and Waiver

An agreement modifying a lease contract needs no consideration to be binding. A signed lease agreement that excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing may not be otherwise modified or rescinded, but, except as between merchants, such a requirement on a form supplied by a merchant must be separately signed by the other […]

§ 11-2A-209. Lessee Under Finance Lease as Beneficiary of Supply Contract

The benefit of a supplier’s promises to the lessor under the supply contract and of all warranties, whether express or implied, including those of any third party provided in connection with or as part of the supply contract, extends to the lessee to the extent of the lessee’s leasehold interest under a finance lease related […]

§ 11-2A-210. Express Warranties

Express warranties by the lessor are created as follows: Any affirmation of fact or promise made by the lessor to the lessee which relates to the goods and becomes part of the basis of the bargain creates an express warranty that the goods will conform to the affirmation or promise. Any description of the goods […]

§ 11-2A-212. Implied Warranty of Merchantability

Except in a finance lease, a warranty that the goods will be merchantable is implied in a lease contract if the lessor is a merchant with respect to goods of that kind. Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as: Pass without objection in the trade under the description in the lease agreement; […]

§ 11-2A-213. Implied Warranty of Fitness for Particular Purpose

Except in a finance lease, if the lessor at the time the lease contract is made has reason to know of any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the lessee is relying on the lessor’s skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is in the lease contract an […]

§ 11-2A-214. Exclusion or Modification of Warranties

Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit a warranty must be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other; but, subject to the provisions of Code Section 11-2A-202 on parol or extrinsic evidence, negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that […]

§ 11-2A-215. Cumulation and Conflict of Warranties Express or Implied

Warranties, whether express or implied, must be construed as consistent with each other and as cumulative, but if that construction is unreasonable, the intention of the parties determines which warranty is dominant. In ascertaining that intention the following rules apply: Exact or technical specifications displace an inconsistent sample or model or general language of description. […]

§ 11-2A-217. Identification

Identification of goods as goods to which a lease contract refers may be made at any time and in any manner explicitly agreed to by the parties. In the absence of explicit agreement, identification occurs: When the lease contract is made if the lease contract is for a lease of goods that are existing and […]

§ 11-2A-218. Insurance and Proceeds

A lessee obtains an insurable interest when existing goods are identified to the lease contract even though the goods identified are nonconforming and the lessee has an option to reject them. If a lessee has an insurable interest only by reason of the lessor’s identification of the goods, the lessor, until default or insolvency or […]

§ 11-2A-219. Risk of Loss

Except in the case of a finance lease, risk of loss is retained by the lessor and does not pass to the lessee.  In the case of a finance lease, risk of loss passes to the lessee. Subject to the provisions of this article on the effect of default on risk of loss (Code Section […]

§ 11-2A-220. Effect of Default on Risk of Loss

Where risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated: If a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the lease contract as to give a right of rejection, the risk of their loss remains with the lessor, or, in the case of a […]

§ 11-2A-221. Casualty to Identified Goods

If a lease contract requires goods identified when the lease contract is made, and the goods suffer casualty without fault of the lessee, the lessor or the supplier before delivery, or the goods suffer casualty before risk of loss passes to the lessee pursuant to the lease agreement or Code Section 11-2A-219, then: If the […]