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...forceable by way of action or defense unless one of the following applies: (1) The total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, are less than one thousand dollars; (2) There is a writing, signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by that party's authorized agent, sufficient to indicate that a lease contract has been made between the parties and ...

...dence of consistent additional terms, unless the court finds the writing to have been intended also as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement.

...ing of a seal to a writing evidencing a lease contract or an offer to enter into a lease contract does not render the writing a sealed instrument, and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to a lease contract or offer to which a seal has been affixed.

...(A) A lease contract may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties that recognizes the existence of a lease contract. (B) An agreement sufficient to constitute a lease contract may be found although the moment of its making is undetermined. (C) Although one or more terms of a lease contract are left open, a lease contract does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties ha...

...An offer by a merchant to lease goods to or from another person in a signed writing that by its terms gives assurance it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or, if no time is stated, for a reasonable time, but in no event may the period of irrevocability exceed three months. Any such term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree shall be separately signed by the...

...(A) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances, and offer to make a lease contract shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable under the circumstances. (B) If the beginning of a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance, an offeror who is not notified of acceptance within a reasonable time may treat the offer as having lapsed befo...

... will be required of any term waived, unless the retraction would be unjust in view of a material change of position in reliance on the waiver.

...benefit of a supplier's promises to the lessor under a supply contract and of all express or implied warranties, including those of any third party provided in connection with or as part of the supply contract, extends to the lessee to the extent of the lessee's leasehold interest under a finance lease related to the supply contract but is subject to the terms of the warranty and of the supply contract and all defens...

...(A) Express warranties by the lessor are created as follows: (1) Any affirmation of fact or promise made by the lessor to the lessee that relates to the goods and becomes part of the basis of the bargain creates an express warranty that the goods will conform to the affirmation or promise. (2) Any description of the goods that is made part of the basis of the bargain creates an express warranty that the goods will ...

...at arose from an act or omission of the lessor, other than a claim by way of infringement or the like, and that will interfere with the lessee's enjoyment of its leasehold interest. (B) Except in a finance lease, there is in a lease contract by a lessor who is a merchant regularly dealing in goods of the kind a warranty that the goods are delivered free of the rightful claim of any person by way of infringement or t...

...e is implied in a lease contract if the lessor is a merchant with respect to goods of that kind. (B) To be merchantable, goods shall at least satisfy the following: (1) Pass without objection in the trade under the description in the lease agreement; (2) In the case of fungible goods, be of fair average quality within the description; (3) Be fit for the ordinary purposes for which goods of that type are used; (4...

...Except in a finance lease, if the lessor at the time the lease contract is made has reason to know of any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the lessee is relying on the lessor's skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is in the lease contract an implied warranty that the goods will be fit for that purpose.

...ion, all of the following apply: (1) Unless the circumstances indicate otherwise, all implied warranties are excluded by expressions like "as is" or "with all faults" or by other language that in common understanding calls the lessee's attention to the exclusion of warranties and makes plain that there is no implied warranty, if in writing and conspicuous. (2) If the lessee before entering into the lease contract h...

...taining that intention, the following rules apply: (A) Exact or technical specifications displace an inconsistent sample or model or general language of description. (B) A sample from an existing bulk displaces inconsistent general language of description. (C) Express warranties displace inconsistent implied warranties other than an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.

...ied warranty to or for the benefit of a lessee under sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code extends to any person who reasonably may be expected to use, consume, or be affected by the goods and who is injured by breach of the warranty. The operation of this section may not be excluded, modified, or limited with respect to injury to the person of an individual to whom the warranty extends, but an exclusion, m...

... marked, or otherwise designated by the lessor as goods to which the lease contract refers, if the lease contract is for a lease of goods that are not existing and identified; (C) When the young are conceived, if the lease contract is for a lease of unborn young of animal.

...(A) A lessee obtains an insurable interest when existing goods are identified to the lease contract, even though the goods identified are nonconforming, and the lessee has an option to reject them. (B) If a lessee has an insurable interest only by reason of the lessor's identification of the goods, the lessor, until default or insolvency or notification to the lessee that identification is final, may substitute othe...

...onnection with the purchase of other noncredit related goods or services. (C) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an excess wear and use waiver is not an insurance product.

... 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. (B) Subject to the provisions of section 1310.27 of the Revised Code on the effect of default on risk of loss, if risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated, the following rules apply: (1) If the lease contract requires or authorizes the ...

...(A) If risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated, one of the following applies: (1) If a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the lease contract as to give a right of rejection, the risk of their loss remains with the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, until cure or acceptance. (2) If the lessee rightfully revokes acceptance, he, to the extent o...

... to the lease agreement or section 1310.26 of the Revised Code, both of the following apply: (A) If the loss is total, the lease contract is avoided. (B) If the loss is partial or the goods have so deteriorated as to no longer conform to the lease contract, the lessee may demand inspection and at his option either treat the lease contract as avoided or, except in a finance lease that is not a consumer lease, accept...

...st purchasers of the goods, and against creditors of the parties.

... Code, those sections apply whether the lessor or a third party has title to the goods and whether the lessor, the lessee, or a third party has possession of the goods, notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code, statute of another jurisdiction, or rule of law that possession or the absence of possession is fraudulent.

...arty under the lease contract or of the lessor's residual interest in the goods or that makes such a transfer an event of default gives rise to the rights and remedies provided in division (D) of this section, but a transfer that is prohibited or is an event of default under the lease agreement otherwise is effective. (C) A provision in a lease agreement that prohibits a transfer of a right to damages for default wi...

...10.31 of the Revised Code, a subsequent lessee from a lessor of goods under an existing lease contract obtains, to the extent of the leasehold interest transferred, the leasehold interest in the goods that the lessor had or had power to transfer and, except as provided in division (B) of this section and division (D) of section 1310.73 of the Revised Code, takes subject to the existing lease contract. A lessor with v...