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SC Code § 36-2A-203 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-203. Seals inoperative.

 The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a lease contract or an offer to enter into a lease contract does not render the writing a sealed instrument and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to the lease contract or offer.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-204 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-204. Formation in general.

 (1) A lease contract may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of a lease contract.  (2) An agreement sufficient to constitute a lease contract may be found although the moment of its making is undetermined.  (3) Although one or more terms are left open, a lease contract does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties have intended to make a lease contract and there is a reasonably certain basis for giving an appropriate remedy.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-205 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-205. Firm offers.

 An offer by a merchant to lease goods to or from another person in a signed writing that by its terms gives assurance it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or, if no time is stated, for a reasonable time, but in no event may the period of irrevocability exceed three months. Any term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree must be separately signed by the offeror.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-206 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-206. Offer and acceptance in formation of lease contract.

 (1) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances, an offer to make a lease contract must be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances.  (2) If beginning a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance, an offeror who is not notified of acceptance within a reasonable time may treat the offer as having lapsed before acceptance.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-208 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-208. Modification, rescission and waiver.

 (1) An agreement modifying a lease contract needs no consideration to be binding.  (2) A signed lease agreement that excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing may not be modified or rescinded otherwise, but, such a requirement on a form supplied by a merchant must be separately signed by the other party, except as between merchants.  (3) Although an attempt at modification or rescission does not satisfy the requirements of subsection (2), it may operate as a waiver.  (4) A party who has made a waiver affecting an executory portion of a lease contract may retract the waiver by reasonable notification received by the other party that strict performance will be required of any term waived, unless the retraction would be unjust in view of a material change of position in reliance on the waiver.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-209 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-209. Lessee under finance lease as beneficiary of supply contract.

 (1) The benefit of a supplier's promises to the lessor under the supply contract and of all warranties, whether express or implied, including those of any third party provided in connection with or as part of the supply contract, extends to the lessee to the extent of the lessee's leasehold interest under a finance lease related to the supply contract, but is subject to the terms of the warranty and of the supply contract and all defenses or claims arising therefrom.  (2) The extension of the benefit of a supplier's promises and of warranties to the lessee (Section 36-2A-209(1)) does not:  (i) modify the rights and obligations of the parties to the supply contract, whether arising from it or otherwise; or  (ii) impose any duty or liability under the supply contract on the lessee.  (3) Any modification or rescission of the supply contract by the supplier and the lessor is effective between the supplier and the lessee unless, before the modification or rescission, the supplier has received notice that the lessee has entered into a finance lease related to the supply contract. If the modification or rescission is effective between the supplier and the lessee, the lessor is deemed to have assumed, in addition to the obligations of the lessor to the lessee under the lease contract, promises of the supplier to the lessor and warranties that were so modified or rescinded as they existed and were available to the lessee before modification or rescission.  (4) In addition to the extension of the benefit of the supplier's promises and of warranties to the lessee under subsection (1), the lessee retains all rights that the lessee may have against the supplier which arise from an agreement between the lessee and the supplier or under other law.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-210. Express warranties.

 (1) Express warranties by the lessor are created as follows:  (a) Any affirmation of fact or promise made by the lessor to the lessee which relates to the goods and becomes part of the basis of the bargain creates an express warranty that the goods will conform to the affirmation or promise.  (b) Any description of the goods which is made part of the basis of the bargain creates an express warranty that the goods will conform to the description.  (c) Any sample or model that is made part of the basis of the bargain creates an express warranty that the whole of the goods will conform to the sample or model.  (2) It is not necessary to the creation of an express warranty that the lessor use formal words, such as "warrant" or "guarantee," or that the lessor have a specific intention to make a warranty, but an affirmation merely of the value of the goods or a statement purporting to be merely the lessor's opinion or commendation of the goods does not create a warranty.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-211 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-211. Warranties against interference and against infringement; lessee ' s obligation against infringement.

 (1) There is in a lease contract a warranty that for the lease term no person holds a claim to or interest in the goods that arose from an act or omission of the lessor, other than a claim by way of infringement or the like, which will interfere with the lessee's enjoyment of its leasehold interest.  (2) Except in a finance lease there is in a lease contract by a lessor who is a merchant regularly dealing in goods of the kind a warranty that the goods are delivered free of the rightful claim of any person by way of infringement or the like.  (3) A lessee who furnishes specifications to a lessor or a supplier shall hold the lessor and the supplier harmless against any claim by way of infringement or the like that arises out of compliance with the specifications.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-212 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-212. Implied warranty of merchantability.

 (1) Except in a finance lease, a warranty that the goods will be merchantable is implied in a lease contract if the lessor is a merchant with respect to goods of that kind.  (2) Goods to be merchantable must at least:  (a) pass without objection in the trade under the description in the lease agreement;  (b) in the case of fungible goods, be of fair average quality within the description;  (c) be fit for the ordinary purposes for which goods of that type are used;  (d) run, within the variation permitted by the lease agreement, of even kind, quality, and quantity within each unit and among all units involved;  (e) be adequately contained, packaged, and labeled as the lease agreement may require; and  (f) conform to any promises or affirmations of fact made on the container or label.  (3) Other implied warranties may arise from course of dealing or usage of trade.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-213 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-213. Implied warranty of fitness for particular purpose.

 Except in a finance lease, if the lessor at the time the lease contract is made has reason to know of any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the lessee is relying on the lessor's skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is in the lease contract an implied warranty that the goods will be fit for that purpose.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-214 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-214. Exclusion or modification of warranties.

 (1) If the agreement creates an express warranty, words disclaiming it are inoperative.  (2) Subject to subsection (3), to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or any part of it, the language must mention "merchantability', be in writing, and be conspicuous. Subject to subsection (3) , to exclude or modify any implied warranty of fitness, the exclusion must be in writing and be conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it is in writing, is conspicuous, and states, for example, "There is no warranty that the goods will be fit for a particular purpose'.  (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), but subject to subsection (4),  (a) unless the circumstances indicate otherwise, all implied warranties are excluded by specific language that in common understanding calls the lessee's attention to the exclusion of warranties and makes plain that there is no implied warranty, if in writing and conspicuous;  (b) if the lessee before entering into the lease contract has examined the goods or the sample or model as fully as desired or has refused to examine the goods, there is no implied warranty with regard to defects that an examination should in the circumstances have revealed; and  (c) an implied warranty may also be excluded or modified by course of dealing, course of performance, or usage of trade.  (4) To exclude or modify a warranty against interference or against infringement (Section 2A-211) or any part of it, the language must be specific, be in writing, and be conspicuous, unless the circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade, give the lessee reason to know that the goods are being leased subject to a claim or interest of any person.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-215 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-215. Cumulation and conflict of warranties express or implied.

 Warranties, whether express or implied, must be construed as consistent with each other and as cumulative, but if that construction is unreasonable, the intention of the parties determines which warranty is dominant. In ascertaining that intention the following rules apply:  (a) Exact or technical specifications displace an inconsistent sample or model or general language of description.  (b) A sample from an existing bulk displaces inconsistent general language of description.  (c) Express warranties displace inconsistent implied warranties other than an implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-216 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-216. Third-party beneficiaries of express and implied warranties.

 A warranty to or for the benefit of a lessee under this chapter, whether express or implied, extends to any natural person who may reasonably be expected to use, consume, or be affected by the goods and who is injured in person by breach of the warranty. This section does not displace principles of law and equity that extend a warranty to or for the benefit of a lessee to other persons. The operation of this section may not be excluded, modified, or limited, but an exclusion, modification, or limitation of the warranty, including any with respect to rights and remedies, effective against the lessee is also effective against the beneficiary designated under this section.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-217 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-217. Identification.

 Identification of goods as goods to which a lease contract refers may be made at any time and in any manner explicitly agreed to by the parties. In the absence of explicit agreement, identification occurs:  (a) when the lease contract is made if it is for goods that are existing and identified;  (b) when the goods are shipped, marked, or otherwise designated by the lessor as goods to which the lease contract refers, if the lease contract is for goods that are not existing and identified; or  (c) when the young are conceived, if the lease contract is for a lease of unborn young of animals.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-218 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-218. Insurance and proceeds.

 (1) A lessee obtains an insurable interest when existing goods are identified to the lease contract even though the goods identified are nonconforming and the lessee has an option to reject them.  (2) If a lessee has an insurable interest only by reason of the lessor's identification of the goods, the lessor, until default or insolvency or notification to the lessee that identification is final, may substitute other goods for those identified.  (3) Notwithstanding a lessee's insurable interest under subsections (1) and (2), the lessor retains an insurable interest until an option to buy has been exercised by the lessee and risk of loss has passed to the lessee.  (4) Nothing in this section impairs any insurable interest recognized under any other statute or rule of law.  (5) The parties by agreement may determine that one or more parties have an obligation to obtain and pay for insurance covering the goods and by agreement may determine the beneficiary of the proceeds of the insurance.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-219 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-219. Risk of loss.

 (1) Except in the case of a finance lease, risk of loss is retained by the lessor and does not pass to the lessee. In the case of a finance lease, risk of loss passes to the lessee.  (2) Subject to the provisions of this chapter on the effect of default on risk of loss (Section 36-2A-220), if risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated, the following rules apply:  (a) If the lease contract requires or authorizes the goods to be shipped by carrier  (i) and it does not require delivery at a particular destination, the risk of loss passes to the lessee when the goods are duly delivered to the carrier; but  (ii) if it does require delivery at a particular destination and the goods are there duly tendered while in the possession of the carrier, the risk of loss passes to the lessee when the goods are there duly so tendered as to enable the lessee to take delivery.  (b) If the goods are held by a bailee to be delivered without being moved, the risk of loss passes to the lessee on acknowledgment by the bailee of the lessee's right to possession of the goods.  (c) In any case not within subsection (a) or (b), the risk of loss passes to the lessee on the lessee's receipt of the goods if the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, is a merchant; otherwise the risk passes to the lessee on tender of delivery.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-220. Effect of default on risk of loss.

 (1) Where risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated:  (a) If a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the lease contract as to give a right of rejection, the risk of their loss remains with the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, until cure or acceptance.  (b) If the lessee rightfully revokes acceptance, he may treat the risk of loss as having remained with the lessor from the beginning to the extent of any deficiency in his effective insurance coverage.  (2) Whether or not risk of loss is to pass to the lessee, if the lessee as to conforming goods already identified to a lease contract repudiates or is otherwise in default under the lease contract, the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, to the extent of any deficiency in his effective insurance coverage may treat the risk of loss as resting on the lessee for a commercially reasonable time.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-221 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-221. Casualty to identified goods.

 If a lease contract requires goods identified when the lease contract is made, and the goods suffer casualty without fault of the lessee, the lessor or the supplier before delivery, or the goods suffer casualty before risk of loss passes to the lessee pursuant to the lease agreement or Section 36-2A-219, then:  (a) if the loss is total, the lease contract is avoided; and  (b) if the loss is partial or the goods have so deteriorated as to no longer conform to the lease contract, the lessee may nevertheless demand inspection and at his option either treat the lease contract as avoided or, except in a finance lease that is not a consumer lease, accept the goods with due allowance from the rent payable for the balance of the lease term for the deterioration or the deficiency in quantity but without further right against the lessor.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-301 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-301. Enforceability of lease contract.

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a lease contract is effective and enforceable according to its terms between the parties, against purchasers of the goods, and against creditors of the parties.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-302 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-302. Title to and possession of goods.

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each provision of this chapter applies whether the lessor or a third party has title to the goods, and whether the lessor, the lessee, or a third party has possession of the goods, notwithstanding any statute or rule of law that possession or the absence of possession is fraudulent.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-304 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-304. Subsequent lease of goods by lessor.

 (1) Subject to Section 36-2A-303, a subsequent lessee from a lessor of goods under an existing lease contract obtains, to the extent of the leasehold interest transferred, the leasehold interest in the goods that the lessor had or had power to transfer, and except as provided in subsection (2) and Section 36-2A-527(4), takes subject to the existing lease contract. A lessor with voidable title has power to transfer a good leasehold interest to a good faith subsequent lessee for value, but only to the extent set forth in the preceding sentence. If goods have been delivered under a transaction of purchase, the lessor has that power even though:  (a) the lessor's transferor was deceived as to the identity of the lessor;  (b) the delivery was in exchange for a check which is later dishonored;  (c) it was agreed that the transaction was to be a "cash sale'; or  (d) the delivery was procured through fraud punishable as larcenous under the criminal law.  (2) A subsequent lessee in the ordinary course of business from a lessor who is a merchant dealing in goods of that kind to whom the goods were entrusted by the existing lessee of that lessor before the interest of the subsequent lessee became enforceable against that lessor obtains, to the extent of the leasehold interest transferred, all of that lessor's and the existing lessee's rights to the goods, and takes free of the existing lease contract.  (3) A subsequent lessee from the lessor of goods that is subject to an existing lease contract and is covered by a certificate of title issued under a statute of this State or of another jurisdiction takes no greater rights than those provided both by this section and by the certificate of title statute.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-305 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-305. Sale or sublease of goods by lessee.

 (1) Subject to the provisions of Section 36-2A-303, a buyer or sublessee from the lessee of goods under an existing lease contract obtains, to the extent of the interest transferred, the leasehold interest in the goods that the lessee had or had power to transfer, and except as provided in subsection (2) and Section 36-2A-511(4), takes subject to the existing lease contract. A lessee with a voidable leasehold interest has power to transfer a good leasehold interest to a good faith buyer for value or a good faith sublessee for value, but only to the extent set forth in the preceding sentence. When goods have been delivered under a transaction of lease the lessee has that power even though:  (a) the lessor was deceived as to the identity of the lessee;  (b) the delivery was in exchange for a check which is later dishonored; or  (c) the deLivery was procured through fraud punishable as larcenous under the criminal law.  (2) A buyer in the ordinary course of business or a sublessee in the ordinary course of business from a lessee who is a merchant dealing in goods of that kind to whom the goods were entrusted by the lessor obtains, to the extent of the interest transferred, all of the lessor's and lessee's rights to the goods, and takes free of the existing lease contract.  (3) A buyer or sublessee from the lessee of goods that is subject to an existing lease contract and is covered by a certificate of title issued under a statute of this State or of another jurisdiction takes no greater rights than those provided both by this section and by the certificate of title statute.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.
SC Code § 36-2A-306 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 2A - Commercial Code - Leases|Section 36-2A-306. Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law.

 If a person in the ordinary course of his business furnishes services or materials with respect to goods subject to a lease contract, a lien upon those goods in the possession of that person given by statute or rule of law for those materials or services takes priority over any interest of the lessor or lessee under the lease contract or this chapter unless the lien is created by statute and the statute provides otherwise or unless the lien is created by rule of law and it provides otherwise.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 2.