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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 2. · Article 2. SALES · Part 5. PERFORMANCE

11-2-510. Effect of breach on risk of loss.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (1)

    Where a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the contract as to give a right of rejection the risk of their loss remains on the seller until cure or acceptance.#

  2. (2)

    Where the buyer rightfully revokes acceptance he may to the extent of any deficiency in his effective insurance coverage treat the risk of loss as having rested on the seller from the beginning.#

  3. (3)

    Where the buyer as to conforming goods already identified to the contract for sale repudiates or is otherwise in breach before risk of their loss has passed to him, the seller may to the extent of any deficiency in his effective insurance coverage treat the risk of loss as resting on the buyer for a commercially reasonable time.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 109A-2-510, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1.

Law reviews

For article, “Impracticability As Risk Allocation: The Effect of Changed Circumstances upon Contract Obligations for the Sale of Goods,” see 22 Ga. L. Rev. 503 (1988).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t11-(v9)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V9, 2022 edition, pages 191 to 192; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ad397fccbf21.