ABSTRACT

I use the word ‘defective’ here as a useful omnibus label to describe all the situations where the buyer has legitimate grounds to complain about the goods. In some of the situations, the goods will not be defective in a lay sense. So, if a seller contracts to sell a red car and delivers a blue car, the buyer may be entitled to reject it (6.4.1, below) though a non-lawyer would not think the car defective.