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672.101 Short title. - Chapter 672 shall be known and may be
cited as the "Uniform Commercial Code-Sales."
672.102 Scope; certain security and other transactions excluded
from this chapter. - Unless the context otherwise requires, this
chapter applies to transactions in goods; it does not apply to
any transaction which although in the form of an unconditional
contract to sell or present sale is intended to operate only as a
security transaction nor does this chapter impair or repeal any
statute regulating sales to consumers, farmers or other specified
classes of buyers.
672.103 Definitions and index of definitions. -
(1) In this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Buyer" means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods.
(b) "Good faith" in the case of a merchant means honesty in fact
and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair
dealing in the trade.
(c) "Receipt" of goods means taking physical possession of them.
(d) "Seller" means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods.
(2) Other definitions applying to this chapter, or to specified
parts thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:
"Acceptance," s. 672.606.
"Banker's credit," s. 672.325.
"Between merchants," s. 672.104.
"Cancellation," s.672.106(4).
"Commercial unit," s. 672.105.
"Confirmed credit," s. 672.325.
"Conforming to contract," s. 672.106.
"Contract for sale," s. 672.106.
"Cover," s. 672.712
"Entrusting," s. 672.403
"Financing agency," s. 672.1056
"Future goods," s. 672.105.
"Goods," s. 672.105.
"Identification," s. 672.501
"Installment contract," s. 672.612
"Letter of credit," s. 672.325
"Lot," s. 672.105.
"Merchant," s. 672.104.
"Overseas," s. 672.323.
"Person in position of seller," s. 672.707.
"Present sale," s. 672.106.
"Sale," s. 672.106.
"Sale on approval," s. 672.326.
"Sale or return," s. 672.326.
"Termination," s. 672.106.
(3) The following definitions in other chapters apply to this
chapter:
"Check," s.673.104.
"Consignee," s. 677.102
"Consignor," s. 677.102.
"Consumer goods," s. 679.109.
"Dishonor," s. 673.507
"Draft," s. 673.104
(4) In addition chapter 671 contains general definitions and
principles of construction and interpretation applicable
throughout this chapter.
672.104 Definitions: "merchant"; "between merchants";
"financing agency." -
(1) "Merchant" means a person who deals in goods of the kind or
otherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge
or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the
transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed
by his employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who
by his occupation holds himself out as having such knowledge or
skill.
(2) "Financing agency" means a bank, finance company or other
person who in the ordinary course of business makes advances
against goods or documents of title or who by arrangement with
either the seller or the buyer intervenes unordinary course
to make or collect payment due or claimed under the contract for
sale, as by purchasing or paying the seller's draft or making
advances against it or by merely taking it for collection whether
or not documents of title accompany the draft. "Financing
agency" includes also a banker other person who similarly
intervenes between persons who are in the position of seller and
buyer in respect to the goods (s.672.707).
(3) "Between merchants" means in any transaction with respect to
which both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of
merchants.
672.105 Definitions: transferability; "goods"; "future" goods;
"lot"; "commercial unit." -
(1) "Goods" means all things (included specially manufactured
goods) which are movable at the time of identification to the
contract for sale other than the money in which the price is to
be paid, investment securities (chapter 678) and things in
action. "Goods" also includes the unborn young of animals and
growing crops and other identified things attached to realty as
described in the section on goods to be severed from realty (s.
672.107).
(2) Goods must be both existing and identified before any
interest in them can pass. Goods which are not both existing and
identified are "future" goods. A purported present sale of
future goods or of any interest therein operates as a contract to
sell.
(3) There may be a sale of a part interest in existing identified
goods.
(4) An undivided share in an identified bulk of fungible goods is
sufficiently identified to be sold although the quantity of the
bulk is not determined. Any agreed proportion of such a bulk or
any quantity thereof agreed upon by number, weight or other
measure may to the extent of the seller's interest in the bulk be
sold to the buyer who then becomes an owner in common.
(5) "Lot" means a parcel or a single article which is the subject
matter of a separate sale or delivery whether or not is
sufficient to perform the contract.
(6) "Commercial unit" means such a unit of goods as by commercial
usage is a single whole for purposes of sale and division of
which materially impairs its character or value on the market or
in use. A commercial unit may be a single article (as a machine)
or a set of articles (as a suite of furniture or an assortment of
sizes) or a quantity (as a bale, gross, or carload) or any other
unit treated in use or in the relevant market as a single whole.
672.106 Definition: "contract"; "agreement"; "contract for
sale"; "sale"; "present sale"; "conforming" to contract;
"termination"; "cancellation." -
(1) In this chapter unless the context otherwise requires
"contract" and "agreement" are limited to those relating to the
present or future sale of goods. "Contract for sale" includes
both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a
future time. A "sale" consists in the passing of title from the
seller to the buyer for a price (s. 672.401). A "present sale"
means a sale which is accomplished.
(2) Goods or conduct including any part of a performance are
"conforming" or conform to the contract when they are in
accordance with the obligations under the contract.
(3) "Termination" occurs when either party pursuant to a power
created by agreement or law puts an end to the contract otherwise
than for its breach. On termination, all obligations which are
still executory on both sides are discharged but any right based
on prior breach or performance survives.
(4) "Cancellation" occurs when either party puts an end to the
contract for breach by the other and its effect is the same as
that of "termination" except that the canceling party also
retains any remedy for breach of the whole contract or any
unperformed balance.
672.107 Goods to be severed from realty; recording. -
(1) A contract for the sale of minerals or the like (including
oil and gas) or a structure or its materials to be removed from
realty is a contract for the sale of goods within this chapter if
they are to be severed by the seller, nut until severance a
purported present sale thereof which is not effective as a
transfer of an interest in land is effective only as a contract
to sell.
(2) A contract for the sale apart from the land of growing crops
or other things attached to realty and capable of severance
without material harm thereto but not described in subsection (1)
or of timber to be cut is a contract for the sale of goods within
this chapter whether the subject matter is to be severed by the
buyer or by the seller even though it forms part of the realty at
the time of contracting, and the parties can by identification
effect a present sale before severance.
(3) The provisions of this section are subject to any third-party
rights provided by the law relating to realty records, and the
contract for sale may be executed and recorde