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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (1970)

Citation
Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (1970)
Parent Document
Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (1970)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1970-05-07

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Modem contract law has recognized that the buyer of goods and services in an industrialized society must rely upon the skill and honesty of the supplier to assure that goods and services purchased are of adequate quality.14 In interpreting most contracts, courts have sought to protect the legitimate expectations of the buyer and have steadily widened the seller’s responsibility for the quality of goods and services through implied warranties of fitness and" merchantability.15 Thus without any special agreement a merchant will be held to warrant that his goods are fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used and that they are at least of reasonably average quality. Moreover, if the supplier has been notified that goods are required for a specific purpose, he will be held to warrant that any goods sold are fit for that purpose. These implied warranties have become widely accepted and well established features of the common law, supported by the overwhelming body of case law.16 Today most states as well as the District of Columbia17 have codified and enacted these warranties into statute, as to the sale of goods, in the Uniform Commercial Code.