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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>377925</law_id><section_number>8.2-305</section_number><catch_line>Open price term</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="15" identifier="8.2">Commercial Code - Sales</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="3">General Obligation and Construction of Contract</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The parties if they so intend can conclude a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> for sale even though the price is not settled. In such a case the price is a reasonable price at the time for delivery if <a id="paragraph-1409639" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> nothing is said as to price; or <a id="paragraph-1409640" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#1a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> the price is left to be agreed by the parties and they fail to agree; or <a id="paragraph-1409641" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#1b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1c" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> the price is to be fixed in terms of some agreed market or other standard as set or recorded by a third person or agency and it is not so set or recorded. <a id="paragraph-1409642" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#1c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A price to be fixed by the seller or by the buyer means a price for him to fix in good faith. <a id="paragraph-1409643" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> When a price left to be fixed otherwise than by agreement of the parties fails to be fixed through fault of one <span class="dictionary">party</span> the other may at his option treat the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> as cancelled or himself fix a reasonable price. <a id="paragraph-1409644" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Where, however, the parties intend not to be bound unless the price be fixed or agreed and it is not fixed or agreed there is no <span class="dictionary">contract</span>. In such a case the buyer must return any goods already received or if unable so to do must pay their reasonable value at the time of delivery and the seller must return any portion of the price paid on account. <a id="paragraph-1409645" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-305/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
