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Miss. Code Ann. § 75-2-715

Buyer’s incidental and consequential damages

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 75–75 (480 sections).

Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 486 So. 2d 374 - Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc. v. Reeves (1986)

Most recently applied in Steel Dynamics Columbus, LLC v. Altech Environment USA Corp. (March 2017)

Codes, 1942, § 41A:2-715; Laws, 1966, ch. 316, § 2-715; Laws, 1993, ch. 302, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 1993.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

(1) Incidental damages resulting from the seller’s breach include expenses reasonably incurred in inspection, receipt, transportation and care and custody of goods rightfully rejected, any commercially reasonable charges, expenses or commissions in connection with effecting cover and any other reasonable expense incident to the delay or other breach.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 302, Laws of 1993, consequential damages resulting from the seller’s breach include: Any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and

(3) Injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.