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Part I - General Provisions
§ 28:2A–101. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 28:2A–102. Scope - This article applies to any transaction, regardless of form, that...
§ 28:2A–103. Definitions and index of definitions - (a) In this article unless the context otherwise requires: (1)...
§ 28:2A–104. Leases subject to other law - (a) A lease, although subject to this article, is also...
§ 28:2A–105. Territorial application of article to goods covered by certificate of title - Subject to the provisions of §§ 28:2A-304(c) and 28:2A-305(c), with...
§ 28:2A–106. Limitation on power of parties to consumer lease to choose applicable law and judicial forum - (a) If the law chosen by the parties to a...
§ 28:2A–107. Waiver or renunciation of claim or right after default - Any claim or right arising out of an alleged default...
§ 28:2A–108. Unconscionability - (a) If the court as a matter of law finds...
§ 28:2A–109. Option to accelerate at will - (a) A term providing that one party or his or...
Part II - Formation and Construction of Lease Contract
§ 28:2A–201. Statute of frauds - (a) A lease contract is not enforceable by way of...
§ 28:2A–202. Final written expression: parol or extrinsic evidence - Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the...
§ 28:2A–203. Seals inoperative - The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a...
§ 28:2A–204. Formation in general - (a) A lease contract may be made in any manner...
§ 28:2A–205. Firm offers - An offer by a merchant to lease goods to or...
§ 28:2A–206. Offer and acceptance in formation of lease contract - (a) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances,...
§ 28:2A–207. Course of performance or practical construction - Repealed. (July 22, 1992, D.C. Law 9-128, § 2(b), 39...
§ 28:2A–208. Modification, rescission, and waiver - (a) An agreement modifying a lease contract needs no consideration...
§ 28:2A–209. Lessee under finance lease as beneficiary of supply contract - (a) The benefit of a supplier’s promises to the lessor...
§ 28:2A–210. Express warranties - (a) Express warranties by the lessor are created as follows:...
§ 28:2A–211. Warranties against interference and against infringement; lessee’s obligation against infringement - (a) There is in a lease contract a warranty that...
§ 28:2A–212. Implied warranty of merchantability - (a) Except in a finance lease, a warranty that the...
§ 28:2A–213. Implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose - Except in a finance lease, if the lessor at the...
§ 28:2A–214. Exclusion or modification of warranties - (a) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an...
§ 28:2A–215. Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied - Warranties, whether express or implied, must be construed as consistent...
§ 28:2A–216. Third party beneficiaries of express and implied warranties - A warranty to or for the benefit of a lessee...
§ 28:2A–217. Identification - Identification of goods as goods to which a lease contract...
§ 28:2A–218. Insurance and proceeds - (a) A lessee obtains an insurable interest when existing goods...
§ 28:2A–219. Risk of loss - (a) Except in the case of a finance lease, risk...
§ 28:2A–220. Effect of default on risk of loss - (a) Where risk of loss is to pass to the...
§ 28:2A–221. Casualty to identified goods - If a lease contract requires goods identified when the lease...
Part III - Effect of Lease Contract
§ 28:2A–301. Enforceability of lease contract - Except as otherwise provided in this article, a lease contract...
§ 28:2A–302. Title to and possession of goods - Except as otherwise provided in this article, each provision of...
§ 28:2A–303. Alienability of party’s interest under lease contract or of lessor’s residual interest in goods; delegation of performance; transfer of rights - (a) As used in this section, the term “creation of...
§ 28:2A–304. Subsequent lease of goods by lessor - (a) Subject to § 28:2A-303, a subsequent lessee from a...
§ 28:2A–305. Sale or sublease of goods by lessee - (a) Subject to the provisions of § 28:2A-303, a buyer...
§ 28:2A–306. Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law - If a person in the ordinary course of his or...
§ 28:2A–307. Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods - (a) Except as otherwise provided in § 28:2A-306, a creditor...
§ 28:2A–308. Special rights of creditors - (a) A creditor of a lessor in possession of goods...
§ 28:2A–309. Lessor’s and lessee’s rights when goods become fixtures - (a) In this section: (1) Goods are “fixtures” when they...
§ 28:2A–310. Lessor’s and lessee’s rights when goods become accessions - (a) Goods are “accessions” when they are installed in or...
§ 28:2A–311. Priority subject to subordination - Nothing in this article prevents subordination by agreement by any...
Part IV - Performance of Lease Contract: Repudiated, Substituted, and Excused
§ 28:2A–401. Insecurity: adequate assurance of performance - (a) A lease contract imposes an obligation on each party...
§ 28:2A–402. Anticipatory repudiation - If either party repudiates a lease contract with respect to...
§ 28:2A–403. Retraction of anticipatory repudiation - (a) Until the repudiating party’s next performance is due, the...
§ 28:2A–404. Substituted performance - (a) If without fault of the lessee, the lessor and...
§ 28:2A–405. Excused performance - Subject to § 28:2A-404 on substituted performance, the following rules...
§ 28:2A–406. Procedure on excused performance - (a) If the lessee receives notification of a material or...
§ 28:2A–407. Irrevocable promises: finance leases - (a) In the case of a finance lease that is...
Part V - Default
Subpart A - In General
§ 28:2A–501. Default: procedure - (a) Whether the lessor or the lessee is in default...
§ 28:2A–502. Notice after default - Except as otherwise provided in this article or the lease...
§ 28:2A–503. Modification or impairment of rights and remedies - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, the lease...
§ 28:2A–504. Liquidation of damages - (a) Damages payable by either party for default, or any...
§ 28:2A–505. Cancellation and termination and effect of cancellation, termination, rescission, or fraud on rights and remedies - (a) On cancellation of the lease contract, all obligations that...
§ 28:2A–506. Statute of limitations - (a) An action for default under a lease contract, including...
§ 28:2A–507. Proof of market rent: time and place - (a) Damages based on market rent (§ 28:2A-519 or §...
Subpart B - Default by Lessor
§ 28:2A–508. Lessee’s remedies - (a) If a lessor fails to deliver the goods in...
§ 28:2A–509. Lessee’s rights on improper delivery; rightful rejection - (a) Subject to the provisions of § 28:2A-510 on default...
§ 28:2A–510. Installment lease contracts: rejection and default - (a) Under an installment lease contract a lessee may reject...
§ 28:2A–511. Merchant lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods - (a) Subject to any security interest of a lessee (§...
§ 28:2A–512. Lessee’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods - (a) Except as otherwise provided with respect to goods that...
§ 28:2A–513. Cure by lessor of improper tender or delivery; replacement - (a) If any tender or delivery by the lessor or...
§ 28:2A–514. Waiver of lessee’s objections - (a) In rejecting goods, a lessee’s failure to state a...
§ 28:2A–515. Acceptance of goods - (a) Acceptance of goods occurs after the lessee has had...
§ 28:2A–516. Effect of acceptance of goods; notice of default; burden of establishing default after acceptance; notice of claim or litigation to person answerable over - (a) A lessee must pay rent for any goods accepted...
§ 28:2A–517. Revocation of acceptance of goods - (a) A lessee may revoke acceptance of a lot or...
§ 28:2A–518. Cover; substitute goods - (a) After default by a lessor under the lease contract...
§ 28:2A–519. Lessee’s damages for nondelivery, repudiation, default, and breach of warranty in regard to accepted goods - (a) Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated...
§ 28:2A–520. Lessee’s incidental and consequential damages - (a) Incidental damages resulting from a lessor’s default include expenses...
§ 28:2A–521. Lessee’s right to specific performance or replevin - (a) Specific performance may be decreed if the goods are...
§ 28:2A–522. Lessee’s right to goods on lessor’s insolvency - (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section and even...
Subpart C - Default by Lessee
§ 28:2A–523. Lessor’s remedies - (a) If a lessee wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of...
§ 28:2A–524. Lessor’s right to identify goods to lease contract - (a) A lessor aggrieved under § 28:2A-523(a) may: (1) Identify...
§ 28:2A–525. Lessor’s right to possession of goods - (a) If a lessor discovers the lessee to be insolvent,...
§ 28:2A–526. Lessor’s stoppage of delivery in transit or otherwise - (a) A lessor may stop delivery of goods in the...
§ 28:2A–527. Lessor’s rights to dispose of goods - (a) After a default by a lessee under the lease...
§ 28:2A–528. Lessor’s damages for nonacceptance, failure to pay, repudiation, or other default - (a) Except as otherwise provided with respect to damages liquidated...
§ 28:2A–529. Lessor’s action for the rent - (a) After default by the lessee under the lease contract...
§ 28:2A–530. Lessor’s incidental damages - Incidental damages to an aggrieved lessor include any commercially reasonable...
§ 28:2A–531. Standing to sue third parties for injury to goods - (a) If a third party so deals with goods that...
§ 28:2A–532. Lessor’s rights to residual interest - In addition to any other necessary recovery permitted by this...