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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68859</law_id><section_number>8.2-311</section_number><catch_line>Options and cooperation respecting performance</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.2-319</reference></referred_to_by><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="3">General Obligation and Construction of Contract</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> An agreement for sale which is otherwise sufficiently definite (subsection (3) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Formation in general" href="/8.2-204/">8.2-204</a>) to be a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> is not made invalid by the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> that it leaves particulars of performance to be specified by one of the parties. Any such specification must be made in good faith and within limits set by commercial reasonableness. <a id="paragraph-249248" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-311/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Unless otherwise agreed specifications relating to assortment of the goods are at the buyer&#x2019;s option and except as otherwise provided in subsections (1) (c) and (3) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="F.O.B. and F.A.S. terms" href="/8.2-319/">8.2-319</a> specifications or arrangements relating to shipment are at the seller&#x2019;s option. <a id="paragraph-249249" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-311/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Where such specification would materially affect the other <span class="dictionary">party</span>&#x2019;s performance but is not seasonably made or where one <span class="dictionary">party</span>&#x2019;s cooperation is necessary to the agreed performance of the other but is not seasonably forthcoming, the other <span class="dictionary">party</span> in addition to all other remedies <a id="paragraph-249250" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-311/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> is excused for any resulting delay in his own performance; and <a id="paragraph-249251" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-311/#3a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> may also either proceed to perform in any reasonable manner or after the time for a <span class="dictionary">material</span> part of his own performance treat the failure to specify or to cooperate as a breach by failure to deliver or accept the goods. <a id="paragraph-249252" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-311/#3b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
