Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Consumer Protection, Bailment, Predatory Pricing

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

Document Summary

Sale of goods in contract law, special kind of contract law. Consumer protection is contract law- modified by statute. Bankruptcy and solvency is not contract, it is a statutory regime. These common law rules were codified- meaning put into a single statute. 1893 was the sale of goods act: every province in canada has a sales of goods act, which are all basically copies of this sales of goods act written in 1893. Orders a meal and they service a meal that is contaminated with botulism. The restaurant says this is not a sales of goods act, this is a contract for services. She wanted him to paint her a picture of a very specific size, and a very specific color. The artist agreed, painted the painting, but after a while the paint started to chip, and the color stated to yellow. She sued under sale of goods, and artist argued not, but a provision of services.