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Section 72.6010 – Buyer’s rights on improper delivery.

Subject to the provisions of ORS 72.6120 on breach in installment contracts and unless otherwise agreed under ORS 72.7180 and 72.7190 on contractual limitations of remedy, if the goods or the tender of delivery fail in any respect to conform to the contract, the buyer may: (1) Reject the whole; or (2) Accept the whole; […]

Section 72.6020 – Manner and effect of rightful rejection.

(1) Rejection of goods must be within a reasonable time after their delivery or tender. It is ineffective unless the buyer seasonably notifies the seller. (2) Subject to the provisions of ORS 72.6030 and 72.6040 on rejected goods: (a) After rejection any exercise of ownership by the buyer with respect to any commercial unit is […]

Section 72.6030 – Merchant buyer’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods.

(1) Subject to any security interest in the buyer as provided in ORS 72.7110 (3), when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in the possession or control of the merchant buyer to follow any reasonable instructions […]

Section 72.6040 – Buyer’s options as to salvage of rightfully rejected goods.

Subject to the provisions of ORS 72.6030 on perishables if the seller gives no instructions within a reasonable time after notification of rejection the buyer may store the rejected goods for the seller’s account or reship them to the seller or resell them for the seller’s account with reimbursement as provided in ORS 72.6030. Such […]

Section 72.6050 – Waiver of buyer’s objections by failure to particularize.

(1) The buyer’s failure to state in connection with rejection a particular defect which is ascertainable by reasonable inspection precludes the buyer from relying on the unstated defect to justify rejection or to establish breach: (a) Where the seller could have cured it if stated seasonably; or (b) Between merchants when the seller has after […]

Section 72.6060 – What constitutes acceptance of goods.

(1) Acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer: (a) After a reasonable opportunity to inspect the goods signifies to the seller that the goods are conforming or that the buyer will take or retain them in spite of their nonconformity; or (b) Fails to make an effective rejection as provided in ORS 72.6020 (1), but […]

Section 72.6080 – Revocation of acceptance in whole or in part.

(1) The buyer may revoke acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose nonconformity substantially impairs its value to the buyer if the buyer has accepted it: (a) On the reasonable assumption that its nonconformity would be cured and it has not been seasonably cured; or (b) Without discovery of such nonconformity if the acceptance […]

Section 72.6090 – Right to adequate assurance of performance.

(1) A contract for sale imposes an obligation on each party that the other’s expectation of receiving due performance will not be impaired. When reasonable grounds for insecurity arise with respect to the performance of either party the other may in writing demand adequate assurance of due performance and until that party receives such assurance […]

Section 72.6100 – Anticipatory repudiation.

When either party repudiates the contract with respect to a performance not yet due the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the contract to the other, the aggrieved party may: (1) For a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or (2) Resort to any remedy for breach as provided […]

Section 72.6110 – Retraction of anticipatory repudiation.

(1) Until the repudiating party’s next performance is due the repudiating party can retract the repudiation unless the aggrieved party has since the repudiation canceled or materially changed position or otherwise indicated that the aggrieved party considers the repudiation final. (2) Retraction may be by any method which clearly indicates to the aggrieved party that […]

Section 72.6120 – “Installment contract”; breach.

(1) An “installment contract” is one which requires or authorizes the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the contract contains a clause “each delivery is a separate contract” or its equivalent. (2) The buyer may reject any installment which is nonconforming if the nonconformity substantially impairs the value of […]

Section 72.6130 – Casualty to identified goods.

Where the contract requires for its performance goods identified when the contract is made, and the goods suffer casualty without fault of either party before the risk of loss passes to the buyer, or in a proper case under a “no arrival, no sale” term as provided in ORS 72.3240 then: (1) If the loss […]

Section 72.6140 – Substituted performance.

(1) Where without fault of either party the agreed berthing, loading, or unloading facilities fail or an agreed type of carrier becomes unavailable or the agreed manner of delivery otherwise becomes commercially impracticable but a commercially reasonable substitute is available, such substitute performance must be tendered and accepted. (2) If the agreed means or manner […]

Section 72.6150 – Excuse by failure of presupposed conditions.

Except so far as a seller may have assumed a greater obligation and subject to the preceding section on substituted performance: (1) Delay in delivery or nondelivery in whole or in part by a seller who complies with subsections (2) and (3) of this section is not a breach of duty under a contract for […]

Section 72.6160 – Procedure on notice claiming excuse.

(1) Where the buyer receives notification of a material or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under ORS 72.6150 the buyer may by written notification to the seller as to any delivery concerned, and where the prospective deficiency substantially impairs the value of the whole contract under the provisions of ORS 72.6120 relating to breach […]