Um, how about pieces of a complex machine being shipped in installments?  Leave out a major piece, and the machine is worthless.

Ken

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Subject: Art. 2 question: example of "one defective installment renders entire installment sales contract breached."

Hi Colleagues,

UCC Art. 2-612 says that if one installment of an installment sales contract  substantially impairs the value of the whole contract, there is a breach of the whole.  

I need a good classroom example of such a thing, and I haven't been able to come up with one.  No doubt some of you have one.  Would you share?

Thank you,

Dan 

Daniel M. Warner
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(Business Legal Studies)
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