California Commercial Code 10514 – (a) In rejecting goods, a lessee’s failure to state a particular …
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(a) In rejecting goods, a lessee‘s failure to state a particular defect that is ascertainable by reasonable inspection precludes the lessee from relying on the defect to justify rejection or to establish default:
(1) If, stated seasonably, the lessor or the supplier could have cured it (Section 10513); or
Terms Used In California Commercial Code 10514
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Section 10309), 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 California Commercial Code 10103
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See California Commercial Code 10103
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See California Commercial Code 10103
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See California Commercial Code 1201
- Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See California Commercial Code 10103
- Writing: includes printing, typewriting, or any other intentional reduction to tangible form. See California Commercial Code 1201
(2) Between merchants if the lessor or the supplier after rejection has made a request in writing for a full and final written statement of all defects on which the lessee proposes to rely.
(b) A lessee’s failure to reserve rights when paying rent or other consideration against documents precludes recovery of the payment for defects apparent in the documents.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 254, Sec. 67. Effective January 1, 2007.)