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Section 2A-504 – Liquidation of Damages

    (1)    Damages payable by either party for default, or any other act or omission, including indemnity for loss or diminution of anticipated tax benefits or loss or damage to the lessor’s residual interest, may be liquidated in the lease agreement but only at an amount or by a formula that is reasonable in light of the […]

Section 2A-505 – Cancellation and Termination and Effect of Cancellation, Termination, Rescission, or Fraud on Rights and Remedies

    (1)    On cancellation of the lease contract, all obligations that are still executory on both sides are discharged, but any right based on prior default or performance survives, and the cancelling party also retains any remedy for default of the whole lease contract or any unperformed balance.     (2)    On termination of the lease contract, all obligations that […]

Section 2A-308 – Special Rights of Creditors

    (1)    A creditor of a lessor in possession of goods subject to a lease contract may treat the lease contract as void if as against the creditor retention of possession by the lessor is fraudulent or voids the lease contract under any statute or rule of law, but retention of possession in good faith and current […]

Section 2A-309 – Lessor’s and Lessee’s Rights When Goods Become Fixtures

    (1)    In this section:         (a)    Goods are “fixtures” when they become so related to particular real estate that an interest in them arises under real estate law;         (b)    A “fixture filing” is the filing, in the office where a record of a mortgage on the real estate would be filed or recorded, of a financing statement covering goods […]

Section 2A-310 – Lessor’s and Lessee’s Rights When Goods Become Accessions

    (1)    Goods are “accessions” when they are installed in or affixed to other goods.     (2)    The interest of a lessor or a lessee under a lease contract entered into before the goods became accessions is superior to all interests in the whole except as stated in subsection (4).     (3)    The interest of a lessor or a lessee under […]

Section 2A-401 – Insecurity: Adequate Assurance of Performance

    (1)    A lease contract imposes an obligation on each party that the other’s expectation of receiving due performance will not be impaired.     (2)    If reasonable grounds for insecurity arise with respect to the performance of either party, the insecure party may demand in writing adequate assurance of due performance. Until the insecure party receives that assurance, if […]

Section 2A-402 – Anticipatory Repudiation

    If either party repudiates a lease contract with respect to a performance not yet due under the lease contract, the loss of which performance will substantially impair the value of the lease contract to the other, the aggrieved party may:         (a)    For a commercially reasonable time, await retraction of repudiation and performance by the repudiating party; […]

Section 2A-219 – Risk of Loss

    (1)    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.     (2)    Subject to the provisions of this title on the effect of default on risk of loss (§ 2A-220), […]