{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1816","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Seller’s Duty to Preserve Things","number":"1816","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1816/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VI - SPECIAL CONTRACTS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP AND OTHER RIGHTS","chapter":"Chapter 1. - Sale","section":"Section 1. - General Provisions","paragraph":"vi. - Preservation of the Things"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"If the buyer is in delay in taking delivery of the things or, where payment of the price and delivery of the things are to be made concurrently, if he fails to pay the price, and the seller is either in possession of the things or otherwise able to control their disposition, the seller must take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to preserve them. He is entitled to retain them until he has been reimbursed his reasonable expenses by the buyer.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1816/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":513,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/513/?article=1816&paragraph=lead#article-1816-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}