(a) A lease contract is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.12.201

  • action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and other applicable rules of law. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Alaska Statutes 45.12.103
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(1) the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, are less than $1,000; or
(2) there is a writing, signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by that party’s authorized agent, sufficient to indicate that a lease contract has been made between the parties and to describe the goods leased and the lease term.
(b) A description of leased goods or of the lease term is sufficient and satisfies (a)(2) of this section, whether or not it is specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described.
(c) A writing is not insufficient because it omits or incorrectly states a term agreed upon, but the lease contract is not enforceable under (a)(2) of this section beyond the lease term and the quantity of goods shown in the writing.
(d) A lease contract that does not satisfy the requirements of (a) of this section, but that is valid in other respects, is enforceable

(1) if the goods are to be specially manufactured or obtained for the lessee and are not suitable for lease or sale to others in the ordinary course of the lessor‘s business, and the lessor, before notice of repudiation is received and under circumstances that reasonably indicate that the goods are for the lessee, has made either a substantial beginning of their manufacture or commitments for their procurement;
(2) if the party against whom enforcement is sought admits in that party’s pleading, testimony, or otherwise in court that a lease contract was made, but the lease contract is not enforceable under this paragraph beyond the quantity of goods admitted; or
(3) with respect to goods that have been received and accepted by the lessee.
(e) The lease term under a lease contract referred to in (d) of this section is

(1) if there is a writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by that party’s authorized agent specifying the lease term, the term specified;
(2) if the party against whom enforcement is sought admits in that party’s pleading, testimony, or otherwise in court a lease term, the term admitted; or
(3) a reasonable lease term.
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