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PART A: THE BUSINESS ORGANISATION, ITS STAKEHOLDERS AND THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 
 
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6.2.5 Goods to correspond with contract description 
If you have agreed to buy certain goods on the basis of the description (whether the buyer's or the 
seller's), you expect the goods to correspond to the description.
This is implied, under the Act, in any contract for sale of goods 'by description'. The description may be 
of ingredients, components, age, date of shipment, packing, quantity etc.
6.2.6 Example: Sale by description 
A seller advertised a secondhand reaping machine, describing it as new the previous year. The buyer 
bought it without seeing it. When it arrived they found that it was much more than a year old and 
rejected it. The seller sued for the price. It was held that this was a sale by description, the goods had 
not corresponded to the description, and the buyer was therefore entitled to reject the goods. 
6.2.7 Satisfactory quality 
All goods supplied under a contract for the sale of goods 
in the course of a business 
must be of 
'satisfactory quality'
. They should meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as 
satisfactory, taking account of any description of the goods, the price and other relevant circumstances. 
In deciding whether goods are of satisfactory quality, the following should be taken into account. 
(a) 
Fitness for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied
.
 
A 
hot water bottle that deteriorated when filled with hot water, for example, would not be of 
satisfactory quality. A bucket needs to hold a variety of substances, and be handled in a variety of 
ways, without leakage, damage, immediate deterioration, and so on. 
(b) 
Appearance and finish
. Previous to 1994, goods with superficial damage, but which operated 
properly in the main, could be of merchantable quality. Satisfactory quality includes freedom from 
dents, marks, scratches, and so on – unless they have clearly been allowed for in the description 
and price. 
(c)