- Statute
- Civil Code
- Article
- Art. 1585
- Topic
- Obligations of the Vendee
- Status
- In force
- Book
- BOOK IV Obligations and Contracts
- Title
- TITLE VI SALES
- Chapter
- CHAPTER 5 Obligations of the Vendee
- Year
- 1949
- Cited by
- A Supreme Court decision
The provision
The buyer is deemed to have accepted the goods when he intimates to the seller that he has accepted them, or when the goods have been delivered to him, and he does any act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller, or when, after the lapse of a reasonable time, he retains the goods without intimating to the seller that he has rejected them. (n)
Intellegal Wiki · In plain terms
A buyer is treated as having accepted delivered goods in any of three ways: by telling the seller he accepts them, by doing something with the goods that only an owner could rightfully do, or by keeping them for an unreasonable length of time without telling the seller he rejects them. Once acceptance occurs, the buyer generally can no longer return them.
An editorially maintained plain-language explanation of this provision — not legal advice.