Goods Quality Guarantee and Goods Quality Assurance: The Correlation and Demarcation Issue

Abstract

In this paper, we study the correlation between legal doctrines of merchantability warranty of goods and assurances of quality of goods as a particular case of assurances of circumstances. The possible similarities, but especially differences, have been pointed out. The position of necessity of their identification and differentiation has been presented. The paper also describes the difference between the legal consequences of a breach of the merchantability warranty and the quality assurance as well as some other differences in the legal regulation arising from their correlation.