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...(A) A purchaser of goods acquires all title which the transferor had or had power to transfer except that a purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest purchased. A person with voidable title has power to transfer a good title to a good faith purchaser for value. When goods have been delivered under a transaction of purchase, the purchaser has such power even though: (1)...

...(A) The buyer obtains a special property and an insurable interest in goods by identification of existing goods as goods to which the contract refers even though the goods so identified are non conforming and he has an option to return or reject them. Such identification can be made at any time and in any manner explicitly agreed to by the parties. In the absence of explicit agreement identification occurs: (1) whe...

...(A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section and even though the goods have not been shipped, a buyer who has paid a part or all of the price of goods in which the buyer has a special property under section 1302.45 of the Revised Code, may on making and keeping good a tender of any unpaid portion of their price recover them from the seller if: (1) In the case of goods bought for personal, family, or house...

...(A) Tender of delivery requires that the seller put and hold conforming goods at the buyer's disposition and give the buyer any notification reasonably necessary to enable the buyer to take delivery. The manner, time, and place for tender are determined by the agreement and sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and in particular: (1) tender must be at a reasonable hour, and if it is of ...

...Where the seller is required or authorized to send the goods to the buyer and the contract does not require him to deliver them at a particular destination, then unless otherwise agreed he must: (A) put the goods in the possession of such a carrier and make such a contract for their transportation as may be reasonable having regard to the nature of the goods and other circumstances of the case; and (B) obtain and p...

...(A) Where the seller has identified goods to the contract by or before shipment: (1) the seller's procurement of a negotiable bill of lading to the seller's own order or otherwise reserves in the seller a security interest in the goods. The seller's procurement of the bill to the order of a financing agency or of the buyer indicates in addition only the seller's expectation of transferring that interest to th...

...(A) A financing agency by paying or purchasing for value a draft which relates to a shipment of goods acquires to the extent of the payment or purchase and in addition to its own rights under the draft and any document of title securing it any rights of the shipper in the goods including the right to stop delivery and the shipper's right to have the draft honored by the buyer. (B) The right to reimbursement o...

...(A) Tender of delivery is a condition to the buyer's duty to accept the goods and, unless otherwise agreed, to his duty to pay for them. Tender entitles the seller to acceptance of the goods and to payment according to the contract. (B) Where payment is due and demanded on the delivery to the buyer of goods or documents of title, his right as against the seller to retain or dispose of them is conditional upon his ma...

...(A) Where any tender or delivery by the seller is rejected because non-conforming and the time for performance has not yet expired, the seller may seasonably notify the buyer of his intention to cure and may then within the contract time make a conforming delivery. (B) Where the buyer rejects a non-conforming tender which the seller had reasonable ground to believe would be acceptable with or without money allowanc...

...(A) Where the contract requires or authorizes the seller to ship the goods by carrier: (1) if it does not require the seller to deliver them at a particular destination, the risk of loss passes to the buyer when the goods are duly delivered to the carrier even though the shipment is under reservation as provided in section 1302.49 of the Revised Code; but (2) if it does require the seller to deliver them at a...

...k of loss as resting on the buyer for a commercially reasonable time.

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed, tender of payment is a condition to the seller's duty to tender and complete any delivery. (B) Tender of payment is sufficient when made by any means or in any manner current in the ordinary course of business unless the seller demands payment in legal tender and gives any extension of time reasonably necessary to procure it. (C) Subject to section 1303.61 of the Revised Code, payment b...

...(A) Where the contract requires payment before inspection, nonconformity of the goods does not excuse the buyer from so making payment unless: (1) The nonconformity appears without inspection; or (2) Despite tender of the required documents the circumstances would justify injunction against honor under division (B) of section 1305.08 of the Revised Code. (B) Payment pursuant to division (A) of this section does no...

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed and subject to division (C) of this section, where goods are tendered or delivered or identified to the contract for sale, the buyer has a right before payment or acceptance to inspect them at any reasonable place and time and in any reasonable manner. When the seller is required or authorized to send the goods to the buyer, the inspection may be after their arrival. (B) Expenses of insp...

...Unless otherwise agreed documents against which a draft is drawn are to be delivered to the drawee on acceptance of the draft if it is payable more than three days after presentment; otherwise, only on payment.

...In furtherance of the adjustment of any claim or dispute: (A) either party on reasonable notification to the other and for the purpose of ascertaining the facts and preserving evidence has the right to inspect, test, and sample the goods including such of them as may be in the possession or control of the other; and (B) the parties may agree to a third party inspection or survey to determine the conformity or condi...

...(A) Subject to any security interest in the buyer as provided in division (C) of section 1302.85 of the Revised Code, 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 his possession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make ...

...(A) 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: (1) where the seller could have cured it if stated seasonably; or (2) between merchants when the seller has after rejection made a request in writing for a full and final written st...

...(A) The buyer must pay at the contract rate for any goods accepted. (B) Acceptance of goods by the buyer precludes rejection of the goods accepted and if made with knowledge of a non-conformity cannot be revoked because of it unless the acceptance was on the reasonable assumption that the non-conformity would be seasonably cured but acceptance does not of itself impair any other remedy provided by sections 1302.01 t...

...er, the aggrieved party may: (A) for a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or (B) resort to any remedy for breach as provided in sections 1302.77 and 1302.85 of the Revised Code even though he has notified the repudiating party that he would await the latter's performance and has urged retraction; and (C) in either case suspend his own performance or proceed in accordance with ...

...(A) Until the repudiating party's next performance is due he can retract his repudiation unless the aggrieved party has since the repudiation cancelled or materially changed his position or otherwise indicated that he considers the repudiation final. (B) Retraction may be by any method which clearly indicates to the aggrieved party that the repudiating party intends to perform, but must include any assurance justif...

...(A) 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. (B) The buyer may reject any installment which is non-conforming if the non-conformity substantially impairs the value of that installment and cannot be cured or if the non-conformity is...

...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 pursuant to section 1302.37 of the Revised Code, then: (A) if the loss is total the contract is avoided; and (B) if the loss is partial or the goods have so deteriora...

...ed manner of delivery otherwise becomes commercially impracticable but a commercially reasonable substitute is available, such substitute performance must be tendered and accepted. (B) If the agreed means or manner of payment fails because of domestic or foreign governmental regulation, the seller may withhold or stop delivery unless the buyer provides a means or manner of payment which is commercially a substantial...

...Except so far as a seller may have assumed a greater obligation and subject to section 1302.72 of the Revised Code on substituted performance: (A) Delay in delivery or non-delivery in whole or in part by a seller who complies with divisions (B) and (C) of this section is not a breach of his duty under a contract for sale if performance as agreed has been made impracticable by the occurrence of a contingency the non-...