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Issues Paper 5 (1988) - Sale of Goods


Table of Contents

Terms of Reference
Participants
Preface
Other Publications in this Reference

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
I. Background

    A. Sale of Goods Law
    B. Contracts for the Sale of Goods
    C. General Assessment
II. The Reference
    A. Earlier Reviews
    B. 1987 Report
III. This Paper
Footnotes

CHAPTER 2: COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
I. An Updated Act
II. General Law Problems

    A. Introduction
    B. Equitable Principles
    C. Offer and Acceptance
    D. Privity
    E. Representation vs Term
III. Specific Problems
    A. Introduction
    B. Romalpa Clauses
    C. Cif and fob Contracts
    D. Rejection and Termination
    E. Mistake and Frustration
    F. Damages
    G. The Nemo Dat Rule
    H. Unconscionability
Footnotes

CHAPTER 3: CONSUMER CONTRACTS
I. Policy of General Review
II. Definition of Consumer
III. Interaction with Trade Practices Act 1974
IV. Implied Terms
V. Restrictions on the Right to Terminate
VI. The Present Part VIII
VII. Damages
VIII. Privity
IX. Second-hand Goods
X. Enforcement of Consumer Rights
Footnotes

CHAPTER 4: SCOPE OF THE ACT
I. Limitations on the Scope of the Sale of Goods Act 1923
II. Are the Limitations Satisfactory?
III. Lease, Hire and Hire-Purchase

    A. The Current Law
    B. Proposals for Reform
IV. Services
    A. The Current Law
    B. Proposals for Reform
V. Computer Software
Footnotes

APPENDIX: Extracts from the Uniform Commercial Code (USA) (Ninth Edition, 1978)



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