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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54926</law_id><section_number>59.1-507.3</section_number><catch_line>Cure of breach of contract</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="43">Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Breach of Contract</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> A <span class="dictionary">party</span> in breach of <span class="dictionary">contract</span> may cure the breach at its own expense if: <a id="paragraph-201494" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> the time for performance has not expired and the party in breach seasonably notifies the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> of its <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to cure and, within the time for performance, makes a conforming performance; <a id="paragraph-201495" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the party in breach had reasonable grounds to believe the performance would be acceptable with or without monetary allowance, seasonably notifies the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> of its <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to cure, and provides a conforming performance within a further reasonable time after performance was due; or <a id="paragraph-201496" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> in a case not governed by paragraph (1) or (2), the party in breach seasonably notifies the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> of its <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to cure and promptly provides a conforming performance before cancellation by the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span>. <a id="paragraph-201497" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#a3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> In a license other than in a mass-market transaction, if the agreement required a single delivery of a copy and the party receiving tender of delivery was required to accept a nonconforming copy because the nonconformity was not a <span class="dictionary">material</span> breach of <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, the party in breach shall promptly and in good faith make an effort to cure if: <a id="paragraph-201498" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> the party in breach receives seasonable notice of the specific nonconformity and a demand for cure of it; and <a id="paragraph-201499" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#b1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the cost of the effort to cure does not disproportionately exceed the direct <span class="dictionary">damages</span> caused by the nonconformity to the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span>. <a id="paragraph-201500" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#b2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> A party may not cancel a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or refuse a performance because of a breach of <span class="dictionary">contract</span> that has been seasonably cured under subsection (a). However, notice of <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to cure does not preclude refusal or cancellation for the uncured breach. <a id="paragraph-201501" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-507.3/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 101, 996.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
