Unmerchantable

Describing goods or services of such poor quality that they cannot be sold. Unmerchantable merchandise may be damaged or simply poorly made.

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In addition, with the more widespread use of kilns and other methods to create biochar, areas with dead or unmerchantable timber from drought, disease, insect, or wildfire may be a feedstock source for biochar production and help lessen the future risk of wildfire.

Methods to Reduce Forest Residue Volume after Timber Harvesting and Produce Black Carbon

(112) Stephen Kapnoullas and Bruce Clarke, 'Countdown to Zero: The Duration of Statutory Rights for Unfit and Unmerchantable Goods' (1999) 14 Journal of Contract Law 154, 155.

The new consumer guarantee law and the reasons for replacing the regime of statutory implied terms in consumer transactions

In this example, the advisory warning made the produce unmerchantable after it was received and accepted by the buyer.

FDA advisory warnings' impact on contract obligations: reprinted from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) administrative newsletter, Summer 2007

The Affected Inter-Op[TM] shells and Affected Natural Knees7 implanted in Plaintiffs and the Class and Subclasses were unsafe, unmerchantable, unfit for use in the body, and otherwise injurious to Plaintiffs and the Class and subclasses.

A novel approach to mass tort class actions: the billion dollar settlement in the Sulzer artificial hip and knee litigation: a symposium

In New York, the criminal or quasi-criminal jurisdiction of a single JP included enforcement by fine of the statutes governing fraudulent repacking of meat, sale of unmerchantable flour, violation of weights and measures, and the usual run of public morality enforcement, including offenses such as profaning the Sabbath, swearing, public intoxication, dealing in lottery tickets, and providing liquor to slaves and apprentices.

Taking the fifth: reconsidering the origins of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination

They produce a wide variety of feedstock types (unmerchantable trees, small-diameter trees, tops, limbs, and chunks) with varying moisture contents (25% to 60%).

Effects of grate size on grinding productivity, fuel consumption, and particle size distribution

About 7.7-million-cubic metres is roundwood, with remaining 3.3-cubic metres being unmerchantable tops, branches and undersized wood.

Ontario puts forest resource to work: province puts 11 million cubic metres of wood up for bid

Evidence that the pacemaker was one of a specific group of devices which had a "possibility" or "risk" of failure over and above what was referred to as a "background or random risk of failure" was enough to deem it 'unmerchantable' and the manufacturer liable to compensate the consumer.

Thinking locally, suing globally: the international frontiers of mass tort litigation in Australia

QUENTIN SAYS: Technically your M3 was of unmerchantable quality and not fit for the purpose for which it was intended.

Quentin at your service

The study also contradicts the myth that logging after fires helps reduce the chance of future fires, as logging operations at Biscuit left huge piles of flammable, unmerchantable timber, while the larger, more fire-resistant trees were clear-cut.

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG

Biomass from logging residues such as limbs, tops, and otherwise unmerchantable trees is viewed as a viable feedstock for meeting increased demand (Perlack and Stokes 2011).

Characteristics of logging businesses that harvest biomass for energy production