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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74581</law_id><section_number>8.2-607</section_number><catch_line>Effect of acceptance; notice of breach; burden of establishing breach after acceptance; notice of claim or litigation to person answerable over</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.2-714</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="6">Breach, Repudiation and Excuse</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The buyer must pay at the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> rate for any goods accepted. <a id="paragraph-268026" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Acceptance of goods by the buyer precludes rejection of the goods accepted and if made with knowledge of a nonconformity cannot be revoked because of it unless the acceptance was on the reasonable assumption that the nonconformity would be seasonably cured but acceptance does not of itself impair any other remedy provided by this title for nonconformity. <a id="paragraph-268027" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Where a tender has been accepted <a id="paragraph-268028" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> the buyer must within a reasonable time after he discovers or should have discovered any breach notify the seller of breach or be barred from any remedy; and <a id="paragraph-268029" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#3a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> if the claim is one for infringement or the like (subsection (3) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Warranty of title and against infringement; buyer's obligation against infringement" href="/8.2-312/">8.2-312</a>) and the buyer is sued as a result of such a breach he must so notify the seller within a reasonable time after he receives notice of the <span class="dictionary">litigation</span> or be barred from any remedy over for liability established by the <span class="dictionary">litigation</span>. <a id="paragraph-268030" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#3b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The burden is on the buyer to establish any breach with respect to the goods accepted. <a id="paragraph-268031" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Where the buyer is sued for breach of a warranty or other obligation for which his seller is answerable over <a id="paragraph-268032" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> he may give his seller written notice of the <span class="dictionary">litigation</span>. If the notice states that the seller may come in and defend and that if the seller does not do so he will be bound in any action against him by his buyer by any determination of <span class="dictionary">fact</span> common to the two <span class="dictionary">litigations</span>, then unless the seller after seasonable receipt of the notice does come in and defend he is so bound. <a id="paragraph-268033" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#5a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> if the claim is one for infringement or the like (subsection (3) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Warranty of title and against infringement; buyer's obligation against infringement" href="/8.2-312/">8.2-312</a>) the original seller may demand in writing that his buyer turn over to him control of the <span class="dictionary">litigation</span> including <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> or else be barred from any remedy over and if he also agrees to bear all expense and to satisfy any adverse <span class="dictionary">judgment</span>, then unless the buyer after seasonable receipt of the demand does turn over control the buyer is so barred. <a id="paragraph-268034" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#5b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> The provisions of subsections (3), (4) and (5) apply to any obligation of a buyer to hold the seller harmless against infringement or the like (subsection (3) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Warranty of title and against infringement; buyer's obligation against infringement" href="/8.2-312/">8.2-312</a>). <a id="paragraph-268035" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-607/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
