Title 41 — Uniform Commercial Code

1. Subject to the provisions of section 41-02.1-58 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 reject t…

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. If, however, the nonconformity does…

1. Subject to any security interest of a lessee (subsection 5 of section 41-02.1-56), 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 the merchant lessee's possession or control, shall follow a…

1. Except as otherwise provided with respect to goods that threaten to decline in value speedily (section 41-02.1-59) and subject to any security interest of a lessee (subsection 5 of section 41-02.1-56): a. The lessee, after rejection of goods in the lessee's possession, shall h…

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 confo…

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 cure…

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 …

1. A lessee may revoke acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose nonconformity substantially impairs its value to the lessee if: a. Except in the case of a finance lease, on the reasonable assumption that its nonconformity would be cured and it has not been seasonably cured; o…

1. After default by a lessor under the lease contract as described in subsection 1 of section 41-02.1-56 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 due …

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 rep…

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 (section 41-02.1-26) on making and keeping good a tender of any unpaid portion of the rent and securit…

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. A lessor aggrieved under subsection 1 of section 41-02.1-70 may: 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 b. Dispose of good…

1. If a lessor discovers the lessee to be insolvent, the lessor may refuse to deliver the goods. 2. The lessor has on a default by the lessee under the lease contract described in subsection 1 of section 41-02.1-71 or in subdivision a of subsection 3 of section 41-02.1-71 the rig…

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 p…

1. After a default by a lessee under the lease contract described in subsection 1 of section 41-02.1-71 or in subdivision a of subsection 3 of section 41-02.1-71 or after the lessor refuses to deliver or takes possession of goods (section 41-02.1-73 or 41-02.1-74), the lessor may…

1. After default by the lessee under the lease contract as described in subsection 1 of section 41-02.1-71 or subdivision a of subsection 3 of section 41-02.1-71 or, if agreed, after other default by the lessee, if the lessor complies with subsection 2, the lessor may recover fro…

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 o…

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, the lessor has a right of action against the third party, and the lessee also has a right of action against the third party if the…

In addition to any other recovery permitted by this chapter or other law, the lessor is entitled to recover from the lessee an amount that will fully compensate the lessor for any loss of or damage to the lessor's residual interest in the goods caused by the default of the lessee…