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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57935</law_id><section_number>8.2-102</section_number><catch_line>Scope; certain security and other transactions excluded from this title</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="8.2">Commercial Code - Sales</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Short Title, General Construction and Subject Matter</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Unless the context otherwise requires, and except as provided in subsection (3), this title applies to transactions in goods and, in the case of a hybrid transaction, it applies to the extent provided in subsection (2). <a id="paragraph-212182" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> In a hybrid transaction: <a id="paragraph-212183" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> If the sale-of-goods aspects do not predominate, only the provisions of this title that relate primarily to the sale-of-goods aspects of the transaction apply, and the provisions that relate primarily to the transaction as a whole do not apply. <a id="paragraph-212184" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#2a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> If the sale-of-goods aspects predominate, this title applies to the transaction but does not preclude application in appropriate circumstances of other <span class="dictionary">law</span> to aspects of the transaction that do not relate to the sale of goods. <a id="paragraph-212185" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#2b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> This title does not: <a id="paragraph-212186" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> apply to a transaction that, even though in the form of an unconditional <span class="dictionary">contract</span> to sell or present sale, operates only to create a security interest; or <a id="paragraph-212187" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#3a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> impair or reveal a <span class="dictionary">statute</span> regulating sales to consumers, farmers, or other specified classes of buyers. <a id="paragraph-212188" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-102/#3b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219; 2024, c. 652.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
