Qatar Trade Law No. 27/2006 Thursday, 24 February 2011 01:19

The sale takes place by a mutual consent of the two contracting parties on the sale item and the price. The buyer must have enough knowledge of the sale item.

The knowledge is considered as sufficient if the contract includes a statement of sale item and its basic description.

If it is stated in the contract that the buyer has the knowledge of the sale item then he forfeits his right to repeal the sales with a claim that he has no knowledge of it unless the fraud of the seller is proven.

It is not considered as positive to inform the current prices to different persons and not supplying the goods and services for sale with the chart of items and their prices and images.

If the sale takes place with the sample then the sale item should be in conformity with it.

If the sample is damaged or destroyed in the hands of one of the contracting parties even without his own fault, then the contractor whether he is a seller or buyer has to prove that the thing is identical to a sample or it is un-identical.

The buyer may reject or accept the sale after it was conditioned with the experiment and the seller will have to make the experiment possible. If the buyer refuses the sale he must do it in a term agreed upon. If there is no agreement on the period then he must announce his decision in a reasonable period to be designated by the seller. The silence of the buyer after the experiment will be considered as an acceptance.

The sale which is subjected to the experiment will be dependent on the acceptance of the sale item unless it became apparent from the agreement or the circumstances that the sale was dependent on the condition of nullifying.

If the sale is subjected to taste, then the buyer may accept the sale if he wishes, but he has to announce this acceptance within the period designated by an agreement or constitution and the sale will take place from the time when it was announced.

If a merchant sold the movable and owned property which comes under the item of his business, to other and delivered the same to the buyer, then the buyer will own the sale item if he has good intention, but if the sold item is a missing or stolen item then the real owner may recover it within five years from the time of loss or theft and the buyer may request the owner to return his money which he had paid upon.

It is permissible to sell the movable property which does not exist at the time of the contract but it can be configured and brought at the time of delivery.

It is permissible to sell something regarding which the two contracting parties at the time of contract had noted the possibility of damage and the buyer will not get back the price if the sale item met with the damage. The sale will be nullified if the seller was confident that the sale item will definitely get damaged.

If it was agreed that the buyer will specify the form of sale item or its size or its other characteristics, then the buyer has to specify the same within a reasonable time, otherwise the seller may ask for the annulment and compensation.

The seller may after the expiry of the given period specify the characteristics of the sale item and that specification will be considered as the final specification if the buyer didn’t object to it within 15 (fifteen) days from the date of notification.