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Section 2-702 – Seller’s Remedies on Discovery of Buyer’s Insolvency

    (1)    Where the seller discovers the buyer to be insolvent he may refuse delivery except for cash including payment for all goods theretofore delivered under the contract, and stop delivery under this title (§ 2-705).     (2)    Where the seller discovers that the buyer has received goods on credit while insolvent he may reclaim the goods upon demand […]

Section 2-703 – Seller’s Remedies in General

    Where the buyer wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of goods or fails to make a payment due on or before delivery or repudiates with respect to a part or the whole, then with respect to any goods directly affected and, if the breach is of the whole contract (§ 2-612), then also with respect to […]

Section 2-704 – Seller’s Right to Identify Goods to the Contract Notwithstanding Breach or to Salvage Unfinished Goods

    (1)    An aggrieved seller under the preceding section may         (a)    Identify to the contract conforming goods not already identified if at the time he learned of the breach they are in his possession or control;         (b)    Treat as the subject of resale goods which have demonstrably been intended for the particular contract even though those goods are unfinished. […]

Section 2-705 – Seller’s Stoppage of Delivery in Transit or Otherwise

    (1)    The seller may stop delivery of goods in the possession of a carrier or other bailee when he discovers the buyer to be insolvent (§ 2-702) and may stop delivery of carload, truckload, planeload or larger shipments of express or freight when the buyer repudiates or fails to make a payment due before delivery or […]

Section 2-706 – Seller’s Resale Including Contract for Resale

    (1)    Under the conditions stated in § 2-703 on seller’s remedies, the seller may resell the goods concerned or the undelivered balance thereof. Where the resale is made in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner the seller may recover the difference between the resale price and the contract price together with any incidental damages […]

Section 2-707 – “Person in the Position of a Seller”

    (1)    A “person in the position of a seller” includes as against a principal an agent who has paid or become responsible for the price of goods on behalf of his principal or anyone who otherwise holds a security interest or other right in goods similar to that of a seller.     (2)    A person in the position […]

Section 2-708 – Seller’s Damages for Nonacceptance or Repudiation

    (1)    Subject to subsection (2) and to the provisions of this title with respect to proof of market price (§ 2-723), the measure of damages for nonacceptance or repudiation by the buyer is the difference between the market price at the time and place for tender and the unpaid contract price together with any incidental damages […]

Section 2-709 – Action for the Price

    (1)    When the buyer fails to pay the price as it becomes due the seller may recover, together with any incidental damages under the next section, the price         (a)    Of goods accepted or of conforming goods lost or damaged within a commercially reasonable time after risk of their loss has passed to the buyer; and         (b)    Of goods […]

Section 2-710 – Seller’s Incidental Damages

    Incidental damages to an aggrieved seller include any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions incurred in stopping delivery, in the transportation, care and custody of goods after the buyer’s breach, in connection with return or resale of the goods or otherwise resulting from the breach.

Section 2-712 – “Cover”; Buyer’s Procurement of Substitute Goods

    (1)    After a breach within the preceding section the buyer may “cover” by making in good faith and without unreasonable delay any reasonable purchase of or contract to purchase goods in substitution for those due from the seller.     (2)    The buyer may recover from the seller as damages the difference between the cost of cover and the […]

Section 2-713 – Buyer’s Damages for Nondelivery or Repudiation

    (1)    Subject to the provisions of this title with respect to proof of market price (§ 2-723), the measure of damages for nondelivery or repudiation by the seller is the difference between the market price at the time when the buyer learned of the breach and the contract price together with any incidental and consequential damages […]

Section 2-714 – Buyer’s Damages for Breach in Regard to Accepted Goods

    (1)    Where the buyer has accepted goods and given notification (subsection (3) of § 2-607) he may recover as damages for any nonconformity of tender the loss resulting in the ordinary course of events from the seller’s breach as determined in any manner which is reasonable.     (2)    The measure of damages for breach of warranty is the […]

Section 2-715 – Buyer’s Incidental and Consequential Damages

    (1)    Incidental damages resulting from the seller’s breach include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions in connection with effecting cover and any other reasonable expense incident to the delay or other breach.     (2)    Consequential damages resulting from the seller’s breach include […]

Section 2-716 – Buyer’s Right to Specific Performance or Replevin

    (1)    Specific performance may be decreed where the goods are unique or in other proper circumstances.     (2)    The decree for specific performance may include such terms and conditions as to payment of the price, damages, or other relief as the court may deem just.     (3)    The buyer has a right of replevin for goods identified to the contract […]

Section 2-717 – Deduction of Damages From the Price

    The buyer on notifying the seller of his intention to do so may deduct all or any part of the damages resulting from any breach of the contract from any part of the price still due under the same contract.

Section 2-718 – Liquidation or Limitation of Damages; Deposits

    (1)    Damages for breach by either party may be liquidated in the agreement but only at an amount which is reasonable in the light of the anticipated or actual harm caused by the breach, the difficulties of proof of loss, and the inconvenience or nonfeasibility of otherwise obtaining an adequate remedy. A term fixing unreasonably large […]

Section 2-719 – Contractual Modification or Limitation of Remedy

    (1)    Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this section and of the preceding section on liquidation and limitation of damages,         (a)    The agreement may provide for remedies in addition to or in substitution for those provided in this title and may limit or alter the measure of damages recoverable under this title, as […]