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Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 2.615

EXCUSE BY FAILURE OF PRESUPPOSED CONDITIONS

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 1–12 (616 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case General Electric Supply Co. v. Gulf Electroquip, Inc. (1993)

Most recently applied in Tractebel Energy Marketing, Inc. v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. (August 2003)

Acts 1967, 60th Leg., p. 2343, ch. 785, Sec. 1, eff

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Except so far as a seller may have assumed a greater obligation and subject to the preceding section on substituted performance:

(1) Delay in delivery or non-delivery in whole or in part by a seller who complies with Subdivisions (2) and (3) is not a breach of his duty under a contract for sale if performance as agreed has been made impracticable by the occurrence of a contingency the non-occurrence of which was a basic assumption on which the contract was made or by compliance in good faith with any applicable foreign or domestic governmental regulation or order whether or not it later proves to be invalid.

(2) Where the causes mentioned in Subdivision (1) affect only a part of the seller's capacity to perform, he must allocate production and deliveries among his customers but may at his option include regular customers not then under contract as well as his own requirements for further manufacture. He may so allocate in any manner which is fair and reasonable.

(3) The seller must notify the buyer seasonably that there will be delay or non-delivery and, when allocation is required under Subdivision (2), of the estimated quota thus made available for the buyer.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.