ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the legal problems which arise where the goods are ‘defective’. (The word defective is put in quotation marks because what we mean by that word is itself one of the central questions to be discussed.)1 It may be safely suggested that complaints about the quality of the goods far exceed in number any of the other complaints which may be made where goods are bought, so the topic is of great practical importance. It is also of some considerable theoretical complexity because of the way in which the rules have developed.
