Title 26, COMMERCIAL LAW

Sec. 502. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and even though the goods have not been shipped, a buyer who has paid a part or all of the price of goods in which he has a special property under the provisions of IC 26-1-2-501 may on making and keeping good a tender of any unpai…

Sec. 503. (1) Tender of delivery requires that the seller put and hold conforming goods at the buyer's disposition and give the buyer any notification reasonably necessary to enable him to take delivery. The manner, time and place for tender are determined by the agreement and IC…

Sec. 504. Where the seller is required or authorized to send the goods to the buyer and the contract does not require him to deliver them at a particular destination, then unless otherwise agreed he must (a) put the goods in the possession of such a carrier and make such a contra…

Sec. 505. (1) Where the seller has identified goods to the contract by or before shipment: (a) His procurement of a negotiable bill of lading to his own order or otherwise reserves in him a security interest in the goods. His procurement of the bill to the order of a financing ag…

Sec. 506. (1) A financing agency by paying or purchasing for value a draft which relates to a shipment of goods acquires to the extent of the payment or purchase and in addition to its own rights under the draft and any document of title securing it any rights of the shipper in t…

Sec. 507. (1) Tender of delivery is a condition to the buyer's duty to accept the goods and, unless otherwise agreed, to his duty to pay for them. Tender entitles the seller to acceptance of the goods and to payment according to the contract. (2) Where payment is due and demanded…

Sec. 508. (1) Where any tender or delivery by the seller is rejected because non-conforming and the time for performance has not yet expired, the seller may seasonably notify the buyer of his intention to cure and may then within the contract time make a conforming delivery. (2) …

Sec. 509. (1) Where the contract requires or authorizes the seller to ship the goods by carrier: (a) if it does not require him to deliver them at a particular destination, the risk of loss passes to the buyer when the goods are duly delivered to the carrier even though the shipm…

Sec. 510. (1) Where a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the contract as to give a right of rejection the risk of their loss remains on the seller until cure or acceptance. (2) Where the buyer rightfully revokes acceptance he may to the extent of any deficiency in…

Sec. 511. (1) Unless otherwise agreed, tender of payment is a condition to the seller's duty to tender and complete any delivery. (2) Tender of payment is sufficient when made by any means or in any manner current in the ordinary course of business, unless the seller demands paym…

Sec. 512. (1) Where the contract requires payment before inspection, nonconformity of the goods does not excuse the buyer from so making payment unless: (a) the nonconformity appears without inspection; or (b) despite tender of the required documents the circumstances would justi…

Sec. 513. (1) Unless otherwise agreed and subject to subsection (3), where goods are tendered or delivered or identified to the contract for sale, the buyer has a right before payment or acceptance to inspect them at any reasonable place and time and in any reasonable manner. Whe…

Sec. 514. Unless otherwise agreed documents against which a draft is drawn are to be delivered to the drawee on acceptance of the draft if it is payable more than three (3) days after presentment; otherwise, only on payment. Formerly: Acts 1963, c.317, s.2-514.

Sec. 515. In furtherance of the adjustment of any claim or dispute (a) either party on reasonable notification to the other and for the purpose of ascertaining the facts and preserving evidence has the right to inspect, test and sample the goods including such of them as may be i…

Sec. 601. Subject to the provisions of IC 26-1-2-612 on breach in installment contracts and unless otherwise agreed under the sections on contractual limitation of remedy (IC 26-1-2-718 and IC 26-1-2-719), if the goods or the tender of delivery fail in any respect to conform to t…

Sec. 602. (1) Rejection of goods must be within a reasonable time after their delivery or tender. It is ineffective unless the buyer seasonably notifies the seller. (2) Subject to the provisions of the sections on rejected goods (IC 26-1-2-603 and IC 26-1-2-604): (a) after reject…

Sec. 603. (1) Subject to any security interest in the buyer (IC 26-1-2-711(3)), when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control to follow any reasonable instructio…

Sec. 604. Subject to the provisions of IC 26-1-2-603 on perishables, if the seller gives no instructions within a reasonable time after notification of rejection, the buyer may store the rejected goods for the seller's account or reship them to him or resell them for the seller's…

Sec. 605. (1) The buyer's failure to state in connection with rejection a particular defect which is ascertainable by reasonable inspection precludes him from relying on the unstated defect to justify rejection or to establish breach: (a) where the seller could have cured it if s…

Sec. 606. (1) Acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer: (a) after a reasonable opportunity to inspect the goods signifies to the seller that the goods are conforming or that he will take or retain them in spite of their nonconformity; or (b) fails to make an effective rejection …

Sec. 607. (1) The buyer must pay at the contract rate for any goods accepted. (2) Acceptance of goods by the buyer precludes rejection of the goods accepted, and if made with knowledge of a nonconformity cannot be revoked because of it unless the acceptance was on the reasonable …

Sec. 608. (1) The buyer may revoke his acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose non-conformity substantially impairs its value to him if he has accepted it (a) on the reasonable assumption that its non-conformity would be cured and it has not been seasonably cured; or (b) wit…

Sec. 609. (1) A contract for sale imposes an obligation on each party that the other's expectation of receiving due performance will not be impaired. When reasonable grounds for insecurity arise with respect to the performance of either party the other may in writing demand adequ…

Sec. 610. When either party repudiates the contract with respect to a performance not yet due, the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the contract to the other, the aggrieved party may: (a) for a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating …

Sec. 611. (1) Until the repudiating party's next performance is due, he can retract his repudiation unless the aggrieved party has since the repudiation cancelled or materially changed his position or otherwise indicated that he considers the repudiation final. (2) Retraction may…

Sec. 612. (1) An "instalment contract" is one which requires or authorizes the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate contract or its equivalent. (2) The buyer may reject any instalment…

Sec. 613. Where the contract requires for its performance goods identified when the contract is made, and the goods suffer casualty without fault of either party before the risk of loss passes to the buyer, or in a proper case under a "no arrival, no sale" term (IC 26-1-2-324), t…

Sec. 614. (1) Where without fault of either party the agreed berthing, loading, or unloading facilities fail or an agreed type of carrier becomes unavailable or the agreed manner of delivery otherwise becomes commercially impracticable but a commercially reasonable substitute is …

Sec. 615. Except so far as a seller may have assumed a greater obligation and subject to IC 26-1-2-614 on substituted performance: (a) Delay in delivery or non-delivery in whole or in part by a seller who complies with paragraphs (b) and (c) is not a breach of his duty under a co…

Sec. 616. (1) Where the buyer receives notification of a material or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under IC 26-1-2-615, he may by written notification to the seller as to any delivery concerned, and where the prospective deficiency substantially impairs the value of…

Sec. 701. Remedies for breach of any obligation or promise collateral or ancillary to a contract for sale are not impaired by the provisions of IC 26-1-2. Formerly: Acts 1963, c.317, s.2-701. As amended by P.L.152-1986, SEC.161.

Sec. 702. (1) Where the seller discovers the buyer to be insolvent he may refuse delivery except for cash including payment for all goods theretofore delivered under the contract, and stop delivery under IC 26-1-2-705. (2) Where the seller discovers that the buyer has received go…

Sec. 703. Where the buyer wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of goods or fails to make a payment due on or before delivery or repudiates with respect to a part or the whole, then with respect to any goods directly affected and, if the breach is of the whole contract (IC 26-…

Sec. 704. (1) An aggrieved seller under IC 26-1-2-703 may: (a) identify to the contract conforming goods not already identified if at the time he learned of the breach they are in his possession or control; (b) treat as the subject of resale goods which have demonstrably been int…

Sec. 705. (1) The seller may stop delivery of goods in the possession of a carrier or other bailee when he discovers the buyer to be insolvent (IC 26-1-2-702) and may stop delivery of carload, truckload, planeload, or larger shipments of express or freight when the buyer repudiat…

Sec. 706. (1) Under the conditions stated in IC 26-1-2-703 on seller's remedies, the seller may resell the goods concerned or the undelivered balance thereof. Where the resale is made in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner, the seller may recover the difference bet…

Sec. 707. (1) A "person in the position of a seller" includes (as against a principal) an agent who has paid or become responsible for the price of goods on behalf of his principal or anyone who otherwise holds a security interest or other right in goods similar to that of a sell…

Sec. 708. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and to the provisions of IC 26-1-2-723 with respect to proof of market price, the measure of damages for nonacceptance or repudiation by the buyer is the difference between the market price at the time and place for tender and the unpaid co…

Sec. 709. (1) When the buyer fails to pay the price as it becomes due, the seller may recover, together with any incidental damages under IC 26-1-2-710, the price: (a) of goods accepted or of conforming goods lost or damaged within a commercially reasonable time after risk of the…

Sec. 710. Incidental damages to an aggrieved seller include any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions incurred in stopping delivery, in the transportation, care and custody of goods after the buyer's breach, in connection with return or resale of the goods or o…

Sec. 711. (1) Where the seller fails to make delivery or repudiates or the buyer rightfully rejects or justifiably revokes acceptance, then with respect to any goods involved, and with respect to the whole if the breach goes to the whole contract (IC 26-1-2-612), the buyer may ca…

Sec. 712. (1) After a breach within IC 26-1-2-711, the buyer may "cover" by making in good faith and without unreasonable delay any reasonable purchase of or contract to purchase goods in substitution for those due from the seller. (2) The buyer may recover from the seller as dam…

Sec. 713. (1) Subject to the provisions of IC 26-1-2-723 with respect to proof of market price, the measure of damages for nondelivery or repudiation by the seller is the difference between the market price at the time when the buyer learned of the breach and the contract price t…

Sec. 714. (1) Where the buyer has accepted goods and given notification (IC 26-1-2-607(3)), he may recover as damages for any nonconformity of tender the loss resulting in the ordinary course of events from the seller's breach as determined in any manner which is reasonable. (2) …

Sec. 715. (1) Incidental damages resulting from the seller's breach include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions in connection with effec…

Sec. 716. (1) Specific performance may be decreed where the goods are unique or in other proper circumstances. (2) The decree for specific performance may include such terms and conditions as to payment of the price, damages, or other relief as the court may deem just. (3) The bu…