South Carolina Code 36-2A-524. Lessor ‘ s right to identify goods to lease contract
(a) identify to the lease contract conforming goods not already identified if at the time the lessor learned of the default they were in the lessor’s or the supplier‘s possession or control; and
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 36-2A-524
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (§ 36-2A-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 South Carolina Code 36-2A-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 South Carolina Code 36-2A-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 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 South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
- Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See South Carolina Code 36-2A-103
(b) dispose of goods (§ 36-2A-527(1)) that demonstrably have been intended for the particular lease contract even though those goods are unfinished.
(2) If the goods are unfinished, in the exercise of reasonable commercial judgment for the purposes of avoiding loss and of effective realization, an aggrieved lessor or the supplier may either complete manufacture and wholly identify the goods to the lease contract or cease manufacture and lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the goods for scrap or salvage value or proceed in any other reasonable manner.