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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65496</law_id><section_number>8.2A-220</section_number><catch_line>Effect of default on risk of loss</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.2A-219</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.2A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Leases</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Formation and Construction of Lease Contract</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Where risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated: <a id="paragraph-238110" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-220/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> If a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> as to give a right of rejection, the risk of their loss remains with the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, until cure or acceptance. <a id="paragraph-238111" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-220/#1a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> If the lessee rightfully revokes acceptance, he or she, to the extent of any deficiency in his or her effective insurance coverage, may treat the risk of loss as having remained with the lessor from the beginning. <a id="paragraph-238112" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-220/#1b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Whether or not risk of loss is to pass to the lessee, if the lessee as to conforming goods already identified to a lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> repudiates or is otherwise in <span class="dictionary">default</span> under the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, to the extent of any deficiency in his or her effective insurance coverage may treat the risk of loss as resting on the lessee for a commercially reasonable time. <a id="paragraph-238113" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-220/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1991, c. 536.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
