بَابُ خِيَارِ الْعَيْبِ
إِذَا اطَّلَعَ الْمُشْتَرِي عَلَى عَيْبٍ فِي الْمَبِيعِ فَهُوَ بِالْخِيَارِ: إِنْ شَاءَ أَخَذَهُ بِجَمِيعِ الثَّمَنِ وَإِنْ شَاءَ رَدَّهُ، وَلَيْسَ لَهُ أَنْ يُمْسِكَهُ وَيَأْخُذَ النُّقْصَانَ
Translation: When a buyer discovers a defect, the buyer may retain the goods for the full agreed price or return them; simply keeping them while demanding an automatic reduction is not a third free-standing option.
The basic remedy is the choice to return the item or keep it at the agreed price.
1. A specified machine costs Rs 20,000 and has a pre-existing hidden fault.
2. The purchaser may keep it for that price or return it in the qualifying circumstances.
3. The purchaser cannot unilaterally force a Rs 3,000 reduction merely by electing to keep it.
Later clauses provide a different remedy where return has become barred.