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Right to reject

A buyer’s right to send back goods that break the section 14 terms, instead of keeping them. It is lost by acceptance. Marrowby kept and repaired the four machines, so it claims money only. Research note 2, acceptance (internal) · Chapter 4 · see Acceptance (of goods)

Explained in Chapter 4, Sale of Goods Act 1979: Satisfactory Quality Explained, of English Law Basics.

How it comes up, in Chapter 4
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.
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