REMEDIES FOR BREACH
- Rights of the unpaid seller against the goods
- Rights to sue for breach of the contract
- Rights of the buyer to sue for damages for non-delivery
- Rights of the buyer to bring an action for specific performance
- Remedies available to the buyer for breach of warranty
- Buyer’s action in tort
Rights of unpaid seller against the goods
— Unpaid seller is:
- a seller to whom the whole of the price has not been paid/ tendered.
- a seller to whom where a bill of exchange/ other negotiable instrument has been received as conditional payment & the condition on which it was received has not been fulfilled due to the instrument being dis-honoured/ for some other reason.
— The rights of unpaid seller are:
- A lien on the goods for the price- S. 46(1)(a)
- A right of stopping the goods in transit in the case of the buyer’s insolvency- S. 46(1)(b)
- A right to resale- S. 46(1)(c)
- A right of withholding delivery- S. 46(2)
LIEN
— = the unpaid seller of goods who still possesses them is entitled to retain possession of them until payment/ tender of the price in any of the following events;
- The goods have been sold without any stipulation as to credit
- The goods have been sold on credit, but the term of credit has expired
- The buyers become insolvent
Right of the seller to sue for breach of contract
— The seller can sue for the price of the goods where:
- The property in the goods has passed to the buyer & the buyer wrongfully neglects/ refuses to pay for the goods; &
- Where it is contracted that the price be paid on a certain date irrespective of delivery & the buyer wrongfully neglects/ refuses to pay such price ( even though the goods has not passed & the goods have not been appropriated to the contract.
- s. 55(2)
Right of the buyer to bring an action for non-delivery
— S. 57 – where the seller wrongfully neglects/ refuses to deliver the goods to the buyer – may sue for damages for non-delivery.
Right of buyer to bring an action for specific performance
— S. 58 – the buyer may bring an action for S.P of the contract by the delivery of specific/ ascertained goods.
— But this remedy is available at the discretion of the courts.
Remedies available to buyer for breach of warranty
— The buyer cannot reject the goods but :
- Set up against the seller the breach of warranty in diminution or extinction of the price, or
- Sue the seller for damages for breach of warranty
Buyer’s action against TORT
— Can sue the seller in tort by bringing an action in detinue & conversion.
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