Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-406

  • Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is a natural person and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:

    (i) the lessor does not select, manufacture, or supply the goods. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (12A:2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this chapter. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
  • Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:2A-103
12A:2A-406. Procedure on excused performance.

(1) If the lessee receives notification of a material or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under 12A:2A-405, the lessee may by written notification to the lessor as to any goods involved, and with respect to all of the goods if under an installment lease contract the value of the whole lease contract is substantially impaired (12A:2A-510):

(a) terminate the lease contract (12A:2A-505(2)); or

(b) except in a finance lease that is not a consumer lease, modify the lease contract by accepting the available quota in substitution, with due allowance from the rent payable for the balance of the lease term for the deficiency but without further right against the lessor.

(2) If, after receipt of a notification from the lessor under 12A:2A-405, the lessee fails so to modify the lease agreement within a reasonable time not exceeding 30 days, the lease contract lapses with respect to any deliveries affected.

L.1994,c.114,s.1.