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Ousting Conditions and Warranties (Buyer's Rights): The Mercini Lady Case

Pathak, Akhileshwar

IIMA-BP0421 | Published March 14, 2018 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

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The Mercini Lady Case is a modern statement of the law on the rights of the buyer in a sale contract. The seller has to supply goods in conformity with description, of merchantable quality and fit for the stated use. These rights, the 'implied conditions', however, can be ousted by express terms in the contract. The Court of Appeal judgement of the UK keenly considered that the exclusion clause should be interpreted in its business sense. However, it sided with precedence established over hundred years that the exclusion clauses take away valuable rights of the buyer and must be strictly and technically constructed.

Rights of buyer in a sale contract; Meaning of implied conditions; Contract terms ousting implied conditions