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...Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or that otherwise are set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to the terms that are included in their agreement may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement but may be explained or supplemented by both of the following: (A) Cours...

...The affixing 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...

...(A) An agreement modifying a lease contract needs no consideration to be binding. (B) A signed lease agreement that excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing may not be otherwise modified or rescinded, but, except as between merchants, a provision that excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing and that is on a form supplied by a merchant shall be separately signed by the oth...

...(A) The 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 al...

...(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 ...

...(A) There is in a lease contract a warranty that for the lease term no person holds a claim to or interest in the goods that 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 good...

...(A) Except in a finance lease, a warranty that the goods will be merchantable 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)...

...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.

...(A) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit a warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other, but, subject to the provisions of section 1310.09 of the Revised Code on parol or extrinsic evidence, negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that the construction is unreasonable. (B) Subject to division (C) ...

...Express or implied warranties shall be construed as consistent with each other and as cumulative, but, if that construction is unreasonable, the intention of the parties determines which warranty is dominant. In ascertaining 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 ...

...An express or implied 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, b...

...Identification of goods as goods to which a lease contract refers may be made at any time and in any manner explicitly agreed to by the parties. In the absence of explicit agreement, identification occurs in one of the following manners: (A) When the lease contract is made, if the lease contract is for a lease of goods that are existing and identified; (B) When the goods are shipped, marked, or otherwise designated...

...(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...

...(A) 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. (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 c...

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

...If a lease contract requires goods to be identified when the lease contract is made, and the goods suffer casualty without fault of the lessee, the lessor, or the supplier before delivery, or the goods suffer casualty before risk of loss passes to the lessee pursuant 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. (...

...Except as otherwise provided in sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised Code, a lease contract is effective and enforceable according to its terms between the parties, against purchasers of the goods, and against creditors of the parties.

...Except as otherwise provided in sections 1310.01 to 1310.78 of the Revised 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.

...(A) As used in this section, "creation of a security interest" includes the sale of a lease contract that is subject to Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code, by reason of division (A)(3) of section 1309.109 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and section 1309.407 of the Revised Code, a provision in a lease agreement that prohibits the voluntary or involuntary transfer, includi...

...(A) Subject to section 1310.31 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 ...

...(A) Subject to section 1310.31 of the Revised Code, a buyer or sublessee from the lessee of goods under an existing lease contract obtains, to the extent of the interest transferred, the leasehold interest in the goods that the lessee had or had power to transfer and, except as provided in division (B) of this section and division (D) of section 1310.57 of the Revised Code, takes subject to the existing lease contrac...

...If a person in the ordinary course of his business furnishes services or materials with respect to goods subject to a lease contract, a lien upon those goods in the possession of that person given by a section of the Revised Code, statute of another jurisdiction, or rule of law for those materials or services takes priority over any interest of the lessor or lessee under the lease contract or sections 1310.01 to 1310...