Sales, Warranties, and Remedies
Sales, Warranties, and Remedies
Article Two formation, performance, express and implied warranties, disclaimers, breach, notice, repair records, and remedies.
Structured Visual
Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-08-28; not legal advice; Render structure, refuse interpretation, cite, abstain, and hand off.
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Scope and honesty note
Jurisdiction: Texas commercial-law anchors and federal debtor-creditor statutes with comparative United States doctrine; as of 2026-08-28; transactions, state law, bankruptcy posture, facts, and remedies vary; synthetic facts are classroom inputs; not legal advice. Render structure, refuse unsupported contract, attachment, perfection, priority, collection, stay, discharge, or remedy conclusions, cite, abstain, and hand off.
See the essential structure first
Start with this deliberately incomplete structure, then use the pinned authorities, worked application, exceptions, and handoff below. This deliberately incomplete preview has 4 nodes; exceptions and legal consequences remain in the sourced prose below.
Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-08-28; not legal advice; Render structure, refuse interpretation, cite, abstain, and hand off.
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Begin with commercial doctrine
Article Two separates formation, performance, warranties, breach, notice, and remedy. Express warranties arise from qualifying affirmations, promises, descriptions, or samples that become part of the basis of the bargain, not merely from labels. Merchantability generally depends on a merchant seller and ordinary-purpose fitness; particular-purpose fitness depends on seller reason to know and buyer reliance. Warranty exclusions, remedy limitations, notice, causation, certainty, mitigation, and failure of essential purpose require their own text and facts.
Express warranties
Affirmation, promise, description, sample, and basis-of-bargain text anchors the express-warranty branch. Verbatim statutory text: “EXPRESS WARRANTIES BY AFFIRMATION, PROMISE, DESCRIPTION, SAMPLE. (a) Express warranties by the seller are created as follows: (1) 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. (2) 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. (3) 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. (b) It is not necessary to the creation of an express warranty that the seller use formal words such as "warrant" or "guarantee" 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's opinion or commendation of the goods does not create a warranty.” Source: Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.313; https://www.neochart.com/catalog/texas/business_commerce/chapter_2/section_2_313/tex_bc_2_313_de872dfe2ae9/tex_business_commerce_code_sec_2_313_express_warranties_by_a_0001/index.html; data via neochart.com, snapshot 2026-08.
Merchantability
The implied warranty attaches when the seller is a merchant of goods of that kind unless lawfully excluded or modified. Verbatim statutory text: “IMPLIED WARRANTY: MERCHANTABILITY; USAGE OF TRADE. (a) Unless excluded or modified (Section 2.316), a warranty that the goods shall be merchantable is implied in a contract for their sale if the seller is a merchant with respect to goods of that kind. Under this section the serving for value of food or drink to be consumed either on the premises or elsewhere is a sale. (b) Goods to be merchantable must be at least such as (1) pass without objection in the trade under the contract description; and (2) in the case of fungible goods, are of fair average quality within the description; and (3) are fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used; and (4) run, within the variations permitted by the agreement, of even kind, quality and quantity within each unit and among all units involved; and (5) are adequately contained, packaged, and labeled as the agreement may require; and (6) conform to the promises or affirmations of fact made on the container or label if any. (c) Unless excluded or modified (Section 2.316) other implied warranties may arise from course of dealing or usage of trade.” Source: Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.314; https://www.neochart.com/catalog/texas/business_commerce/chapter_2/section_2_314/tex_bc_2_314_fccba32655b2/tex_business_commerce_code_sec_2_314_implied_warranty_mercha_0001/index.html; data via neochart.com, snapshot 2026-08.
Fitness for particular purpose
The statute requires seller reason to know purpose and buyer reliance on seller skill or judgment. Verbatim statutory text: “IMPLIED WARRANTY: FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Where the seller at the time of contracting has reason to know any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the buyer is relying on the seller's skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is unless excluded or modified under the next section an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose. Acts 1967, 60th Leg., p. 2343, ch. 785, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1967.” Source: Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.315; https://www.neochart.com/catalog/texas/business_commerce/chapter_2/section_2_315/tex_bc_2_315_9262e071913c/tex_business_commerce_code_sec_2_315_implied_warranty_fitnes_0001/index.html; data via neochart.com, snapshot 2026-08.
Buyer damages
The existing fixture pins one buyer market-damages rule. Verbatim statutory text: “BUYER'S DAMAGES FOR NON-DELIVERY OR REPUDIATION. (a) Subject to the provisions of this chapter with respect to proof of market price (Section 2.723), the measure of damages for non-delivery or repudiation by the seller is the difference between the market price at the time when the buyer learned of the breach and the contract price together with any incidental and consequential damages provided in this chapter (Section 2.715), but less expenses saved in consequence of the seller's breach. (b) Market price is to be determined as of the place for tender or, in cases of rejection after arrival or revocation of acceptance, as of the place of arrival.” Source: Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.713; https://www.neochart.com/catalog/texas/business_commerce/chapter_2/section_2_713/tex_bc_2_713_1ec9952aa9d0/tex_business_commerce_code_sec_2_713_buyer_s_damages_for_non_0001/index.html; data via neochart.com, snapshot 2026-08.
Incidental and consequential damages
The existing fixture pins defined additional buyer-damage categories and limitations. Verbatim statutory text: “BUYER'S INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. (a) Incidental damages resulting from the seller's breach include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions in connection with effecting cover and any other reasonable expense incident to the delay or other breach. (b) Consequential damages resulting from the seller's breach include (1) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and (2) injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.” Source: Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.715; https://www.neochart.com/catalog/texas/business_commerce/chapter_2/section_2_715/tex_bc_2_715_b3249028700e/tex_business_commerce_code_sec_2_715_buyer_s_incidental_and_0001/index.html; data via neochart.com, snapshot 2026-08.
Pin the synthetic commercial record
A synthetic refrigeration sale folds warranty and repair records into the doctrinal sequence: sales documents, statements, selection facts, disclaimer, delivery, performance data, notice, repair visits, parts, expenses, substitute rental, loss claim, replacement request, and review status.
Work the commercial application
The temperature statement enters express-warranty analysis and seller selection enters fitness analysis; dealer status supports the merchantability branch. Each warranty is tested separately against disclaimers and conformity evidence. The service log supplies notice and cure facts, not an automatic admission. Repair, substitute, and batch-loss entries enter the precise remedy categories with causation, foreseeability, certainty, mitigation, and limitation review.
Read the populated commercial record
The sales record contains goods, merchant, formation, term, affirmation, description, sample, basis of bargain, ordinary purpose, particular purpose, seller knowledge, reliance, disclaimer, limitation, tender, acceptance, notice, repair event, cure, expense, cover, market measure, consequential loss, mitigation, remedy failure, and handoff. The record contains 18 populated legal rows plus any retained priority artifacts.
Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-08-28; not legal advice; Render structure, refuse interpretation, cite, abstain, and hand off.
RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF: render structure, refuse interpretation, cite provenance, abstain when unsupported, and hand off to human review.
Read the complete record
The complete record keeps sources, stated facts, and questions for review separate. Pinned sources: Verbatim snapshot authority. Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.313: Express warranties: Express warranties. Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.314: Merchantability: Merchantability. Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.315: Fitness for particular purpose: Fitness for particular purpose. Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.713: Buyer damages: Buyer damages. Tex. Business and Commerce Code § 2.715: Incidental and consequential damages: Incidental and consequential damages. Synthetic record: Classroom facts and records only. Sale: Dealer sells refrigeration unit after stating it will maintain a specified temperature and selecting it for buyer's laboratory use. Failure: Unit departs from range; buyer sends notice, requests repair, logs visits and parts, rents substitute, loses a batch, and disputes disclaimer. Records: Purchase packet, warranty text, service log, notice timeline, expense ledger, replacement request, and status handoff are folded. Legal trace: Scope, element, event, date, conflict, consequence, handoff. Formation and terms: Goods, merchants, offer, acceptance, writings, additional terms, price, delivery, risk, modification. Express warranty: Affirmation, promise, description or sample, fact versus opinion, basis of bargain, conformity. Merchantability: Merchant of kind, implied warranty, ordinary purpose and statutory standards, exclusion or modification. Fitness: Particular purpose, seller reason to know, reliance, selection, fitness, exclusion or modification. Breach and notice: Tender, acceptance, rejection, revocation, breach date, notice, cure, limitations. Remedies: Cover, market measure, incidental and consequential loss, foreseeability, causation, certainty, mitigation, limitation, failure of essential purpose.
Narrow summary
Separate contract formation, each warranty, exclusion, breach, notice, repair history, and remedy element; a service record or product failure does not decide liability.