                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXPRESS WARRANTIES BY AFFIRMATION, PROMISE, DESCRIPTION, SAMPLE (§ 8.2-313)

1. Express warranties by the seller are created as follows:

   a. Any affirmation of fact or promise made by the seller to the buyer which
   relates to the goods and becomes part of the basis of the bargain creates an
   express warranty that the goods shall conform to the affirmation or promise.

   b. Any description of the goods which is made part of the basis of the bargain
   creates an express warranty that the goods shall conform to the description.

   c. Any sample or model which is made part of the basis of the bargain creates
   an express warranty that the whole of the goods shall conform to the sample or
   model.

2. It is not necessary to the creation of an express warranty that the seller
use formal words such as &#8220;warrant&#8221; or &#8220;guarantee&#8221; or
that he have a specific intention to make a warranty, but an affirmation merely
of the value of the goods or a statement purporting to be merely the
seller&#8217;s opinion or commendation of the goods does not create a warranty.

HISTORY: 1964, c. 219.