English Law Basics · glossary
Keeping goods and treating them as your own, which ends the right to send them back. Marrowby used the four machines for eight weeks, then had its own engineer repair them: it accepted them and keeps a money claim only. Asking the seller to repair is not acceptance. Research note 2, acceptance (internal) · Chapter 4 · see Right to reject
Explained in Chapter 4, Sale of Goods Act 1979: Satisfactory Quality Explained, of English Law Basics.
One more question sits inside Duarte’s: can Marrowby send the machines back? A buyer may reject goods that break the section 14 terms. Lawyers call this the right to reject. But the right is lost by acceptance: keeping the goods and treating them as the buyer’s own.Read Chapter 4, Sale of Goods Act 1979: Satisfactory Quality Explained →
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