First Principles of Business Law
Quiz: Statutory provisions affecting contracts for goods and services

Question 6

 

 

 

A goes into B’s shop where various computers are on display.  A examines the various laptop computers, taking careful note of the screen size, keyboard quality and processing speed.  He chooses one of the laptops that he thinks compares best to all the others and buys it.  In the light of these circumstances, which one of the following statements is correct? 

 

(a)  The sale described is a sale ‘by sample’ and it is a term of the contract that the goods purchased will not have any defects that are not apparent in the computers seen in the shop by the buyer.

(b)  The sale described is not a sale ‘by sample’ and the quality of the goods sold will not be determined with reference to the computers seen in the shop by the buyer.

(c)   There are insufficient known facts to decide whether or not the sale described is a sale ‘by sample’.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  
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