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This law was first created in 1964. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 219 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1964 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online.<\/p>","references":[{"id":66830,"section_number":"8.2-602","catch_line":"Manner and effect of rightful rejection","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-602\/"},{"id":72944,"section_number":"8.2-604","catch_line":"Buyer's options as to salvage of rightfully rejected goods","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-604\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":71698,"section_number":"8.2-711","catch_line":"Buyer's remedies in general; buyer's security interest in rejected goods","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.2-711\/"}],"permalink":{"id":282209,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61294,"identifier":"8.2-603","token":"8.2\/6\/8.2-603","url":"\/8.2-603\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/8.2-603\/","token":"8.2\/6\/8.2-603","dublin_core":{"Title":"Merchant buyer’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 8.2-603","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Subject to any security interest in the buyer (subsection (3) of § 8.2-711<\/a>), 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<\/span> or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them for the seller’s account if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> When the buyer sells goods under subsection (1), he is entitled to reimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and selling them, and if the expenses include no selling commission then to such commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum not exceeding ten per cent on the gross proceeds. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> In complying with this section the buyer is held only to good faith and good faith conduct hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an action for damages<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMERCHANT BUYER’S DUTIES AS TO RIGHTFULLY REJECTED GOODS (\u00a7 8.2-603)\n\n1. Subject to any security interest in the buyer (subsection (3) of §\n8.2-711), when the seller has no agent or place of business at the market of\nrejection a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his\npossession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the\nseller with respect to the goods and in the absence of such instructions to make\nreasonable efforts to sell them for the seller’s account if they are\nperishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not\nreasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.\n\n2. When the buyer sells goods under subsection (1), he is entitled to\nreimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of\ncaring for and selling them, and if the expenses include no selling commission\nthen to such commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a\nreasonable sum not exceeding ten per cent on the gross proceeds.\n\n3. In complying with this section the buyer is held only to good faith and good\nfaith conduct hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an\naction for damages.\n\nHISTORY: 1964, c. 219.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}