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...Remedies for breach of any obligation or promise collateral or ancillary to a contract for sale are not impaired by the provisions of sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...(A) 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 section 1302.79 of the Revised Code. (B) Where the seller discovers that the buyer has received goods on credit while insolvent he may reclaim the goods upon demand made within ten days after the receipt, but if misrepresenta...

...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 under section 1302.70 of the Revised Code, then also with respect to the whole undelivered balance, the aggrieved seller may: (A) withhold delivery of such ...

...eller may in the exercise of reasonable commercial judgment for the purposes of avoiding loss and of effective realization either complete the manufacture and wholly identify the goods to the contract or cease manufacture and resell for scrap or salvage value or proceed in any other reasonable manner.

...(A) The seller may stop delivery of goods in the possession of a carrier or other bailee when he discovers the buyer to be insolvent as provided in section 1302.76 of the Revised Code 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 if for any other reason the seller has a right to withho...

...e 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 allowed under section 1302.84 of the Revised Code, but less expenses in consequences of the buyer's breach. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section or unless otherwise agreed resale may be at public o...

...(A) 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. (B) A person in the position of a seller may withhold or stop delivery as provided in section 1302.79 of the Revised Code and resell as provided in...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section and to the provisions of section 1302.97 of the Revised Code with respect to proof of market price, the measure of damages for non-acceptance 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 provided in section 1302.84 of the Revised Code, but less expen...

...nforming goods lost or damaged within a commercially reasonable time after risk of their loss has passed to the buyer; and (2) of goods identified to the contract if the seller is unable after reasonable effort to resell them at a reasonable price or the circumstances reasonably indicate that such effort will be unavailing. (B) Where the seller sues for the price he must hold for the buyer any goods which have been...

...ages 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.

...(A) Where the seller fails to make delivery or repudiates or the buyer rightfully rejects or justifiably revokes acceptance then with respect to any goods involved, and with respect to the whole if the breach goes to the whole contract, as provided in section 1302.70 of the Revised Code, the buyer may cancel and whether or not he has done so may in addition to recovering so much of the price as has been paid: (1) "c...

...(A) 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. (B) The buyer may recover from the seller as damages the difference between the cost of cover and the contract price together with any incidental or consequential damages as defined in sect...

...(A) Subject to the provisions of section 1302.97 of the Revised Code, with respect to proof of market price, the measure of damages for non-delivery 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 provided in section 1302.89 of the Revised Code, but less expenses saved...

...(A) Where the buyer has accepted goods and given notification as provided in division (C) of section 1302.65 of the Revised Code, he may recover as damages for any non-conformity of tender the loss resulting in the ordinary course of events from the seller's breach as determined in any manner which is reasonable. (B) The measure of damages for breach of warranty is the difference at the time and place of acceptance ...

...stody 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. (B) Consequential damages resulting from the seller's breach include: (1) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and ...

...(A) Specific performance may be decreed where the goods are unique or in other proper circumstances. (B) 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. (C) The buyer has a right of replevin for goods identified to the contract if after reasonable effort the buyer is unable to effect cover for such goods or t...

...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.

...(A) 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 non-feasibility of otherwise obtaining an adequate remedy. A term fixing unreasonably large liquidated damages is void as a penalty. (B) Where the seller justifiably withhold...

...limitation of damages where the loss is commercial is not.

...Unless the contrary intention clearly appears, expressions of "cancellation" or "rescission" of the contract or the like shall not be construed as a renunciation or discharge of any claim in damages for an antecedent breach.

...Remedies for material misrepresentation or fraud include all remedies available under sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code for non-fraudulent breach. Neither rescission or a claim for rescission of the contract for sale nor rejection or return of the goods shall bar or be deemed inconsistent with a claim for damages or other remedy.

...Where a third party so deals with goods which have been identified to a contract for sale as to cause actionable injury to a party to that contract: (A) a right of action against the third party is in either party to the contract for sale who has title to or a security interest or a special property or an insurable interest in the goods; and if the goods have been destroyed or converted a right of action is also in ...

...escribed or at any other place which in commercial judgment or under usage of trade would serve as a reasonable substitute for the one described may be used, making any proper allowance for the cost of transporting the goods to or from such other place. (C) Evidence of a relevant price prevailing at a time or place other than the one described in sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, offered b...

...(A) An action for breach of any contract for sale must be commenced within four years after the cause of action has accrued. By the original agreement the parties may reduce the period of limitation to not less than one year but may not extend it. (B) A cause of action accrues when the breach occurs, regardless of the aggrieved party's lack of knowledge of the breach. A breach of warranty occurs when tender of deliv...

...ness means observance of the reasonable commercial standards that are prevailing in the area in which the person is located with respect to the business in which the person is engaged. In the case of a bank that takes an instrument for processing for collection or payment by automated means, reasonable commercial standards do not require the bank to examine the instrument if the failure to examine does not violate th...

...(A) This chapter applies to negotiable instruments. It does not apply to money, to payment orders governed by sections 1304.51 to 1304.85 of the Revised Code, or to securities governed by Chapter 1308. of the Revised Code. (B) If there is a conflict between this chapter and either sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 or Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code, the provisions of sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 or Chapter 1309. of the...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, "negotiable instrument" means an unconditional promise or order to pay a fixed amount of money, with or without interest or other charges described in the promise or order, if it meets all of the following requirements: (1) It is payable to bearer or to order at the time it is issued or first comes into possession of a holder. (2) It is payable on dem...

...An unissued instrument, or an unissued incomplete instrument that is completed, is binding on the maker or drawer, but nonissuance is a defense. An instrument that is conditionally issued or is issued for a special purpose is binding on the maker or drawer, but the failure of the condition or special purpose to be fulfilled is a defense.

...(A) Except as provided in this section, for the purposes of division (A) of section 1303.03 of the Revised Code, a promise or order is unconditional unless it states any of the following: (1) An express condition to payment; (2) That the promise or order is subject to or governed by another record ; (3) That rights or obligations with respect to the promise or order are stated in another record. A reference to...

...Unless the instrument otherwise provides, an instrument that states the amount payable in foreign money may be paid in the foreign money or in an equivalent amount in dollars calculated by using the current bank-offered spot rate at the place of payment for the purchase of dollars on the day on which the instrument is paid.

...(A) A promise or order is "payable on demand" if it states that it is payable on demand or at sight or otherwise indicates that it is payable at the will of the holder, or if it does not state any time of payment. (B) A promise or order is "payable at a definite time" if it is payable on elapse of a definite period of time after sight or acceptance, at a fixed date or dates, or at a time or times readily ascertainab...

...(A) The person to whom an instrument is initially payable is determined by the intent of the person, whether or not authorized to sign the instrument, who signs the instrument as, in the name of, or in behalf of the issuer of the instrument. The instrument is payable to the person intended by the signer even if that person is identified in the instrument by a name or other identification that is not that of the inten...

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or Chapter 1304. of the Revised Code, an instrument is payable at the place of payment stated in the instrument. If no place of payment is stated in an instrument, an instrument is payable at the address of the drawee or maker stated in the instrument. If no address of the drawee or maker is stated in an instrument, the place of payment is the place of business of the draw...

...(A) A promise or order is "payable to bearer" if any of the following apply: (1) It states that it is payable to the bearer or to the order of bearer or otherwise indicates that the person in possession of the promise or order is entitled to payment. (2) It does not state a payee. (3) It states that it is payable to "cash" or to the order of "cash" or otherwise indicates that it is not payable to an identified per...

...(A) "Incomplete instrument" means a signed writing, whether or not issued by the signer, the contents of which show at the time of signing that it is incomplete but that the signer intended it to be completed by the addition of words or numbers. (B) Subject to division (C) of this section, if an incomplete instrument is an instrument under section 1303.03 of the Revised Code, it may be enforced according to its term...

...(A) Unless otherwise provided in the instrument, both of the following apply: (1) An instrument is not payable with interest. (2) Interest on an interest-bearing instrument is payable from the date of the instrument. (B) Interest may be stated in an instrument as a fixed or variable amount of money, or it may be expressed as a fixed or variable rate or rates. The amount or rate of interest may be stated or describ...

...(A) An instrument may be antedated or postdated. The date stated determines the time of payment if the instrument is payable at a fixed period after date. Except as provided in division (C) of section 1304.30 of the Revised Code, an instrument payable on demand is not payable before the date of the instrument. (B) If an instrument is undated, its date is the date of its issue or, in the case of an unissued instrumen...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in the instrument, two or more persons who have the same liability on an instrument as makers, drawers, acceptors, indorsers who indorse as joint payees, or anomalous indorsers are jointly and severally liable in the capacity in which they sign. (B) Except as provided in division (F) of section 1303.59 of the Revised Code or by agreement of the affected parties, a party having joint ...

...Subject to applicable law regarding exclusion of proof of contemporaneous or previous agreements, the obligation of a party to an instrument to pay the instrument may be modified, supplemented, or nullified by a separate agreement of the obligor and a person entitled to enforce the instrument, if the instrument is issued or the obligation is incurred in reliance on the agreement or as part of the same transaction giv...

...(A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, an action to enforce the obligation of a party to pay a note payable at a definite time shall be brought within six years after the due date or dates stated in the note or, if a due date is accelerated, within six years after the accelerated due date. (B) Except as provided in division (D) or (E) of this section, if demand for payment is made to the maker of a ...

...If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both typewritten and printed terms, and words prevail over numbers.

...In an action for breach of an obligation for which a third person is answerable over pursuant to this chapter or sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code, the defendant may give the third person notice of the litigation in a record, and the person notified may then give similar notice to any other person who is answerable over. If the notice states that the person notified may come in and defend and that fail...

...(A) "Negotiation" means a voluntary or involuntary transfer of possession of an instrument by a person other than the issuer to a person who by the transfer becomes the holder of the instrument. (B) Except for negotiation by a remitter, if an instrument is payable to an identified person, negotiation requires transfer of possession of the instrument and its indorsement by the holder. If an instrument is payable to b...

...(A) An instrument is transferred when it is delivered by a person other than its issuer for the purpose of giving to the person receiving delivery the right to enforce the instrument. (B) Transfer of an instrument, whether or not the transfer is a negotiation, vests in the transferee any right of the transferor to enforce the instrument, including any right as a holder in due course, but the transferee cannot acquir...

...(A) Negotiation is effective even if it is obtained in any of the following manners: (1) From an infant, a corporation exceeding its powers, or any other person without capacity; (2) By fraud, duress, or mistake of any kind; (3) As part of an illegal transaction; (4) In breach of duty. (B) To the extent permitted by other law, negotiation may be rescinded or may be subject to other remedies, but those remedies m...

...(A)(1) "Indorsement" means a signature, other than that of a signer as maker, drawer, or acceptor, that alone or accompanied by other words is made on an instrument for any of the following purposes: (a) To negotiate the instrument; (b) To restrict payment of the instrument; (c) To incur the indorser's liability on the instrument. (2) Regardless of the intent of the signer, a signature and its accompanying words ...

...(A) A "special indorsement" means an indorsement that is made by the holder of an instrument, whether payable to an identified person or payable to the bearer, and that identifies a person to whom it makes the instrument payble. An instrument, when specially indorsed, becomes payable to the identified person and may be negotiated only by the indorsement of that person. Section 1303.08 of the Revised Code applies to s...

...(A) An indorsement limiting payment to a particular person or otherwise prohibiting further transfer or negotiation of the instrument is not effective to prevent further transfer or negotiation of the instrument. (B) An indorsement stating a condition to the right of the indorsee to receive payment does not affect the right of the indorsee to enforce the instrument. A person paying the instrument or taking it for va...

..."Reacquisition of an instrument" occurs if it is transferred by negotiation or otherwise to a former holder. A former holder who reacquires the instrument may cancel any indorsements made after the reacquirer first became a holder of the instrument. If the cancellation causes the instrument to be payable to the reacquirer or to bearer, the reacquirer may negotiate the instrument. An indorser whose indorsement is canc...

...(A) "Person entitled to enforce" an instrument means any of the following persons: (1) The holder of the instrument; (2) A nonholder in possession of the instrument who has the rights of a holder; (3) A person not in possession of the instrument who is entitled to enforce the instrument pursuant to section 1303.38 or division (D) of section 1303.58 of the Revised Code. (B) A person may be a "person entitled to en...