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APPENDIX A.

UNIFORM SALES ACT.

(NOTE: The following Act was recently drafted by the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and recommended for passage by the different states. It does not seek in any substantial way to change existing law, but purports to gather into one code the Law of Sales, changing the law in some states in some respects where such states had adopted a view rejected by the commissioners in their choice between opposing doctrines. It has been adopted so far in Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Tennessee.)

APPENDIX A.

UNIFORM SALES ACT.

(For states in which this law is substantially enacted, see page 127, note.)

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17-22. Transfer of property as between seller and buyer. 23-40. Transfer of title.

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Secs.

57-59. Stoppage in transitu.

60. Resale by seller.

61-62. Rescission by the seller.

ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT.

63-65. Remedies of the seller.

66-70. Remedies of the buyer.

INTERPRETATION.

71-79. Interpretation, definition, etc.

PART I.

FORMATION OF THE CONTRACT.

Section 1. (Contracts to Sell and Sales.) (1) A contract to sell goods is a contract whereby the seller agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a consideration called the price.

(2) A sale of goods is an agreement whereby the seller transfers the property in goods to the buyer for a consideration called the price.

(3) A contract to sell or a sale may be absolute or conditional.

(4) There may be a contract to sell or a sale between one part owner and another.

Section 2. (Capacity-Liabilities for Necessaries.)

Capacity to buy and sell is regulated by the general law concerning capacity to contract, and to transfer and acquire property.

Where necessaries are sold and delivered to an infant, or to a person who by reason of mental incapacity or drunkenness is incompetent to contract, he must pay a reasonable price therefor.

Necessaries in this section means goods suitable to the condition in life of such infant or other person, and to his actual requirements at the time of delivery.

FORMALITIES OF THE COntract.

Section 3. (Form of Contract or Sale.) Subject to the provisions of this act and of any statute in that behalf, a contract to sell or a sale may be made in writing (either with or without

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