Chapter XIX. Satisfaction Of The Statute By Acceptance And Receipt Or Part Payment

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This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.

Methods of satisfying the statute............	539
Satisfication of Section 17	540
Acceptance and receipt are not equivalent to delivery........	541
Acceptance.........	542
Time of acceptance........	543
Acceptance by dealing with the goods as owner.........	544
Right of objection........	545
Right of rejection.........	546
Modern English rule...........	547
Who may accept...........	548
Parties may withdraw before the satisfaction of the statute...	549
Acceptance under a mistake..........	550
Actual receipt.........	551
Forcible taking or giving of possession.......	552
Receipt of goods in the hands of a third person...........	553
New York rule...........	554
Receipt by delivery at a particular place.........	555
Receipt by delivery to a carrier............	556
Receipt of goods in the hands of buyer.......	557
Receipt of goods in the hands of seller........	558
Symbolic receipt.........	559
Documents of title.........	560
Part of the goods..........	561
Choses in action...........	562
Acceptance and receipt present questions of fact........................	563
"Or give something in earnest to bind the contract"....	564
"Or in part payment"........	565
Time of payment...........	566

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