Utah Code 70A-2-105. Definitions — Transferability — “Goods” — “Future” goods — “Lot” — “Commercial unit.”
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(1) “Goods” means all things (including 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 8, Uniform Commercial Code – Investment Securities) and things in action. “Goods” also includes the unborn young of animals and growing crops and other identified things attached to realty (Section 70A-2-107 ).
Terms Used In Utah Code 70A-2-105
- Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Utah Code 70A-2-103
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Utah Code 70A-2-106
- Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Utah Code 70A-2-103
- Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
(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 it 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.