Title 11

(1) If a lessor fails to deliver the goods in conformity to the lease contract (Code Section 11-2A-509) or repudiates the lease contract (Code Section 11-2A-402), or a lessee rightfully rejects the goods (Code Section 11-2A-509) or justifiably revokes acceptance of the goods (Code…

(1) Subject to the provisions of Code Section 11-2A-510 on default in installment lease contracts, if the goods or the tender or delivery fail in any respect to conform to the lease contract, the lessee may reject or accept the goods or accept any commercial unit or units and rej…

(1) Under an installment lease contract a lessee may reject any delivery that is nonconforming if the nonconformity substantially impairs the value of that delivery and cannot be cured or the nonconformity is a defect in the required documents; but if the nonconformity does not f…

(1) Subject to any security interest of a lessee (Code Section 11-2A508(5)), if a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in his possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions …

(1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to goods that threaten to decline in value speedily (Code Section 11-2A-511) and subject to any security interest of a lessee (Code Section 11-2A-508(5)): (a) The lessee, after rejection of goods in the lessee’s possession, shall hold…

(1) If any tender or delivery by the lessor or the supplier is rejected because nonconforming and the time for performance has not yet expired, the lessor or the supplier may seasonably notify the lessee of the lessor’s or the supplier’s intention to cure and may then make a conf…

(1) 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: (a) If, stated seasonably, the lessor or the supplier could have cu…

(1) Acceptance of goods occurs after the lessee has had a reasonable opportunity to inspect the goods and (a) The lessee signifies or acts with respect to the goods in a manner that signifies to the lessor or the supplier that the goods are conforming or that the lessee will take o…

(1) A lessee must pay rent for any goods accepted in accordance with the lease contract, with due allowance for goods rightfully rejected or not delivered. (2) A lessee’s acceptance of goods precludes rejection of the goods accepted. In the case of a finance lease, if made with kn…

(1) A lessee may revoke acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose nonconformity substantially impairs its value to the lessee if the lessee has accepted it: (a) Except in the case of a finance lease, on the reasonable assumption that its nonconformity would be cured and it has …

(1) After a default by a lessor under the lease contract of the type described in Code Section 11-2A-508(1) or, if agreed, after other default by the lessor, the lessee may cover by making any purchase or lease of or contract to purchase or lease goods in substitution for those d…

(1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated in the lease agreement (Code Section 11-2A-504) or otherwise determined pursuant to agreement of the parties (Code Sections 11-1-302 and 11-2A-503), if a lessee elects not to cover or a lessee elects to cover and…

(1) Incidental damages resulting from a lessor’s default include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation, and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected or goods the acceptance of which is justifiably revoked, any commercially reasonable charges, exp…

(1) Specific performance may be decreed if the goods are unique or in other proper circumstances. (2) A decree for specific performance may include any terms and conditions as to payment of the rent, damages, or other relief that the court deems just. (3) A lessee has a right of re…

(1) Subject to subsection (2) and even though the goods have not been shipped, a lessee who has paid a part or all of the rent and security for goods identified to a lease contract (Code Section 11-2A-217) on making and keeping good a tender of any unpaid portion of the rent and s…

(1) If a lessee wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of goods or fails to make a payment when due or repudiates with respect to a part or the whole, then, with respect to any goods involved, and with respect to all of the goods if under an installment lease contract the value…

(1) After default by the lessee under the lease contract of the type described in Code Section 11-2A-523(1) or Code Section 11-2A-523(3)(a) or, if agreed, after other default by the lessee, the lessor may: (a) Identify to the lease contract conforming goods not already identified …

(1) If a lessor discovers the lessee to be insolvent, the lessor may refuse to deliver the goods. (2) After a default by the lessee under the lease contract of the type described in Code Section 11-2A-523(1) or 11-2A-523(3)(a) or, if agreed, after other default by the lessee, the…

(1) A lessor may stop delivery of goods in the possession of a carrier or other bailee if the lessor discovers the lessee to be insolvent and may stop delivery of carload, truckload, planeload, or larger shipments of express or freight if the lessee repudiates or fails to make a …

(1) After a default by a lessee under the lease contract of the type described in Code Section 11-2A-523(1) or 11-2A-523(3)(a) or after the lessor refuses to deliver or takes possession of goods (Code Section 11-2A-525 or 11-2A-526), or, if agreed, after other default by a lessee…

(1) Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated in the lease agreement (Code Section 11-2A-504) or otherwise determined pursuant to agreement of the parties (Code Sections 11-1-302 and 11-2A-503), if a lessor elects to retain the goods or a lessor elects to di…

(1) After default by the lessee under the lease contract of the type described in Code Section 11-2A-523(1) or 11-2A-523(3)(a) or, if agreed, after other default by the lessee, if the lessor complies with subsection (2), the lessor may recover from the lessee as damages: (a) For …

Incidental damages to an aggrieved lessor include any commercially reasonable charges, expenses, or commissions incurred in stopping delivery, in the transportation, care and custody of goods after the lessee’s default, in connection with return or disposition of the goods, or ot…

(1) If a third party so deals with goods that have been identified to a lease contract as to cause actionable injury to a party to the lease contract (a) the lessor has a right of action against the third party, and (b) the lessee also has a right of action against the third party…

Effective date. Ga. L. 1993, p. 633, § 5, provides: “This [article] shall become effective on July 1, 1993, for all lease contracts that are first made or that first become effective between the parties on or after that date. This [article] shall not apply to any lease first made or…