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Business Law Ch 16
Business Law with UCC Applications Ch 16
Question | Answer |
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Auction With Reserve | An auction at which the auctioneer has the right to withdraw goods and not sell them if acceptable bids are not made. |
Auction Without Reserve | An auction at which the auctineer cannot withdraw goods unless no bid is made within a reasonable time. |
Conforming Goods | Goods that are in accordance with the obligations under the contract. |
Contract for Sale | Either a present sale of goods or a contract to sell goods at a future time. |
Firm Offer | A rule that no consideration is necessary when a merchant agrees in writing to hold an offer open for the sale of goods |
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) | A United Nation treaty designed to govern commercial transactions between parties whose places of business are in different countries. |
Future Goods | Goods that are not yet in existence or under the control of people; they include fish in the sea, minerals in the ground, goods, not yet manufactured, and commodities futures. |
Goods | All things (other than money, stock, and bonds) that are movable. |
Merchant | A person who deals in goods of the kind sold in the ordinary course of business or who otherwise claims to have knowledge or skills peculiar to those goods. |
Nonconforming Goods | Goods that are not the same as those called for under a contract or that are in some way defective. |
Open-price terms | A contract for the sale of goods that is established even though the price is not settled. |
Output Contract | An agreement in which a seller agrees to sell "all the goods we manufacture" or "all the crops we produce" to a particular buyer. |
Requirements COntract | An agreement in which one party agrees to purchase all of his or her requirments of a particular product from another party. |
Sale | A contract in which ownership of goods is transferred by the seller to the buyer for a price. |
Usage of Trade | Any method of dealing that is commonly used in the particular field. |