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[77 STAT. 660]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1963
[77 STAT. 660]

660

PUBLIC LAW 88-243-DEC. 30, 1963

[77 STAT.

is under a duty after rejection to hold them with reasonable care at the seller's disposition for a time sufficient to permit the seller to remove them; but (c) the buyer has no further obligations with repn-d to goods rightfully rejected. (3) The seller's rights with respect to goods wrongfully rejected are governed by the provisions of this article on Seller's remedies in general (section 28:2—703). § 28: 2—603. Merchant buyer's duties as to rightfully rejected goods (1) Subject to any security interest in the buyer (sul>secti()n (3) of section 28:2—711), when the seller has no agent or ])]ace of business at the market of rejection a merchant buyer is under a duty after rejection of goods in his possession or control to follow any reasonable instructions received from the seller with respect to the gcwxls and in the absence of such instructions to make reasonable efforts to sell them for the seller's account if they are perishable or threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming. (2) When the buyer sells goods under subsection (1), he is entitled to reimbursement from the seller or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and selling them, and if the expenses include no selling connnission then to such commission as is usual in the trade or if there is none to a reasonable sum not exceeding ten per cent on the gross proceeds. (3) In complying with this section the buyer is held only to good faith and good faith conduct hereunder is neither acceptance nor conversion nor the basis of an action for damages. §28:2—604. Buyer's options as to salvage of rightfully rejected goods Subject to the provisions of the immediately preceding section on perishables if the seller gives no instructions within a reasonable time after notification of rejection the buyer may store the rejected goods for the seller's account or reship them to him or resell them for the seller's account with reimbursement as provided in the preceding section. Such action is not acceptance or conversion. § 28:2—605. Waiver of buyer's objections by failure to particularize (1) The buyer's failure to state in connection with rejection a particular defect which is ascertainable by reasonable inspection precludes him from relying on the unstated defect to justify rejection or to establish breach (a) where the seller could have cured it if stated seasonably; or (b) between merchants when the seller has after rejection made a request in writing for a full and final written statement of all defects on which the buyer proposes to rely. (2) Payment against documents made without reservation of rights precludes recovery of the payment for defects apparent on the face of the documents. § 28:2—606. What constitutes acceptance of goods (1) Acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer (a) after a reasonable opportunity to inspect the goods signifies to the seller that the goods are conforming or that he will take or retain them in spite of their nonconformity; or (b) fails to make an effective rejection (subsection (1) of section 28:2—602), but such acceptance does not occur until the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity to inspect them; or