The Day Your Silence Started Talking
The Law You Live, Part 1 By Tim Munyi Mugo A woman buys shoes in town. They pinch slightly, but the seller assures her that leather stretches, and leather has been making that promise since the invention of feet. She wears them to a wedding on Saturday, to church on Sunday, and to the office on Monday. By Wednesday one sole has separated from its shoe with a finality that suggests it was never truly committed. She returns to the shop. And here she meets a problem that has nothing to do with the sole. The Sale of Goods Act gives buyers a genuine right to reject goods that breach the contract. But that right has a shelf life, and it can be lost in three (3) ordinary ways, all of which the woman in the shoes has now managed to perform in a single week. You lose the right when you tell the seller you accept the goods. Simple enough, and rarely the problem. You lose it when you do something with the goods that only an owner could properly do . Wearing shoes to a wedding is s...