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 Section 7-2-316 an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose.
Ala. Code § 7-2-315
Implied Warranty: Fitness for Particular Purpose.
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 7–7 (703 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 140 F. Supp. 2d 1280 - Chase v. Kawasaki Motors Corp., USA (2001)
Most recently applied in In re Rust-Oleum Restore Marketing, Sales Practices & Products Liability Litigation (January 2016)
(Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.