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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76228</law_id><section_number>8.2A-402</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>8.2A-508</reference><reference>8.2A-529</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="4">Performance of Lease Contract; Repudiated, Substituted and Excused</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If either party repudiates a lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with respect to a performance not yet due under the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, the loss of which performance will substantially impair the value of the lease <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 retraction of repudiation and performance by the repudiating party; <a id="paragraph-273716" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-402/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Make demand pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Insecurity: adequate assurance of performance" href="/8.2A-401/">8.2A-401</a> and await assurance of future performance adequate under the circumstances of the particular case; or <a id="paragraph-273717" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-402/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Resort to any right or remedy upon <span class="dictionary">default</span> under the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or this title, even though the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> has notified the repudiating party that the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> would await the repudiating party&#x2019;s performance and assurance and has urged retraction. In addition, whether or not the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> is pursuing one of the foregoing remedies, the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> may suspend performance or, if the <span class="dictionary">aggrieved party</span> is the lessor, proceed in accordance with the provisions of this title on the lessor&#x2019;s right to identify goods to the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> notwithstanding <span class="dictionary">default</span> or to salvage unfinished goods (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Lessor's right to identify goods to lease contract" href="/8.2A-524/">8.2A-524</a>). <a id="paragraph-273718" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-402/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1991, c. 536.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
