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title: O.C.G.A. § 11-2A-520. Lessee’s incidental and consequential damages.
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# O.C.G.A. § 11-2A-520. Lessee’s incidental and consequential damages.

(1) Incidental damages resulting from a lessor’s default include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation, and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected or goods the acceptance of which is justifiably revoked, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions in connection with effecting cover, and any other reasonable expense incident to the default.

(2) Consequential damages resulting from a lessor’s default include:

(a) Any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the lessor at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and

(b) Injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.

## History

Code 1981, § 11-2A-520, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 633, § 1.