Question

Elegant Carpets, Inc., and Fantastic Floors Stores enter into a contract for a sale of carpeting to be delivered under a shipment contract. This contract requires Elegant Carpets, the seller, to​ Select one: a. ​inspect the goods before shipping them. b. ​deliver the goods to a particular destination. c. ​allow the buyer to rejectthe goods for any reason. d. ​place the goods into the hands of a carrier.

Answer 1

The correct answer is d. ​place the goods into the hands of a carrier.

Step-by-step explanation:

The transport contract is a contract under which a person (physical or legal) is obliged to move from one place to another, by land, sea, canals, lakes or navigable rivers or air, passengers or other goods, and deliver these to the person to whom they are addressed, in exchange for an economic consideration.

The transportation contract can be verbal; in general, it is materialized in the so-called "waybill", whose issuance is not mandatory, once extended it represents the legal title of the contract, it has a transcendent probative utility. The parties may require each other the waybill.

A transport contract regulates:

1. The carrier's responsibility.
2. The deadlines to claim damages, both apparent and hidden.
3. The statute of limitations for claims.
4. Compensation