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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72611</law_id><section_number>8.2-610</section_number><catch_line>Anticipatory repudiation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.2-709</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><p>When either party repudiates the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with respect to a performance not yet due the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> to the other, the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> may</p></section>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> for a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or <a id="paragraph-261369" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-610/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> resort to any remedy for breach (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Seller's remedies in general" href="/8.2-703/">8.2-703</a> or &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Buyer's remedies in general; buyer's security interest in rejected goods" href="/8.2-711/">8.2-711</a>), even though he has notified the repudiating party that he would await the latter&#x2019;s performance and has urged retraction; and <a id="paragraph-261370" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-610/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> in either case suspend his own performance or proceed in accordance with the provisions of this title on the seller&#x2019;s right to identify goods to the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Seller's right to identify goods to the contract notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods" href="/8.2-704/">8.2-704</a>). <a id="paragraph-261371" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-610/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
