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82 Chapter 3The terms of the contract

Satisfactory quality (s. 14(2))

Section 14(2) of the SGA 1979 provides that:

Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business, there is an implied [condition] that the

goods supplied under the contract are of satisfactory quality.

Figure 3.5 Section 13 SGA 1979

HeldThe boat was sold in the course of the defendant’s business. For the purposes of

s. 14 of the SGA 1979, the words ‘in the course of a business’ should be taken at face value.

Section 14 applies to any sale made by a business, even if what is sold is not the stock

in trade which the business exists in order to sell. Even a one-off sale by the business is a

sale in the course of a business. However, purely private sales which are made outside the

limits of the business would not be made in the course of a business.