§ 6A-2-610. Anticipatory repudiation.
When either party repudiates the contract with respect to a performance not yet due the loss of which will substantially impair the value of the contract to the other, the aggrieved party may:
(a) For a commercially reasonable time await performance by the repudiating party; or
(b) Resort to any remedy for breach (§ 6A-2-703 or 6A-2-711), even though he or she has notified the repudiating party that he or she would await the latter’s performance and has urged retraction; and
(c) In either case suspend his or her own performance or proceed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter on the seller’s right to identify goods to the contract notwithstanding breach or to salvage unfinished goods (§ 6A-2-704).
History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 147, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 6A - Uniform Commercial Code
Part 6 - Breach, Repudiation and Excuse
Section 6A-2-601. - Buyer’s rights on improper delivery.
Section 6A-2-602. - Manner and effect of rightful rejection.
Section 6A-2-603. - Merchant buyer’s duties as to rightfully rejected goods.
Section 6A-2-604. - Buyer’s options as to salvage of rightfully rejected goods.
Section 6A-2-605. - Waiver of buyer’s objections by failure to particularize.
Section 6A-2-606. - What constitutes acceptance of goods.
Section 6A-2-608. - Revocation of acceptance in whole or in part.
Section 6A-2-609. - Right to adequate assurance of performance.
Section 6A-2-610. - Anticipatory repudiation.
Section 6A-2-611. - Retraction of anticipatory repudiation.
Section 6A-2-612. - “Installment contract” — Breach.
Section 6A-2-613. - Casualty to identified goods.
Section 6A-2-614. - Substituted performance.
Section 6A-2-615. - Excuse by failure of presupposed conditions.