Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE · Chapter 2. · Article 2. SALES · Part 6. BREACH, REPUDIATION, AND EXCUSE

11-2-602. Manner and effect of rightful rejection.

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(1)
Rejection of goods must be within a reasonable time after their delivery or tender. It is ineffective unless the buyer seasonably notifies the seller.#
(2)
Subject to the provisions of Code Sections 11-2-603 and 11-2-604 on rejected goods:#
1. (a)
  After rejection any exercise of ownership by the buyer with respect to any commercial unit is wrongful as against the seller; and#
2. (b)
  If the buyer has before rejection taken physical possession of goods in which he does not have a security interest under the provisions of this article (subsection (3) of Code Section 11-2-711), he is under a duty after rejection to hold them with reasonable care at the seller’s disposition for a time sufficient to permit the seller to remove them; but#
3. (c)
  The buyer has no further obligations with regard to goods rightfully rejected.#
(3)
The seller’s rights with respect to goods wrongfully rejected are governed by the provisions of this article on seller’s remedies in general (Code Section 11-2-703).#

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-2-602, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1.

Law reviews

For article, “Buyer’s Right of Rejection: A Quarter Century Under the Uniform Commercial Code, and Recent International Developments,” see 13 Ga. L. Rev. 805 (1979).

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