I have received deposits from others when selling my house, but now I don’t want to sell it. I am willing to return the deposit. What are my legal responsibilities?

If you have received a deposit from someone else to sell your house, but you no longer want to sell it, if you are willing to return the deposit, you will be liable for breach of contract. According to relevant laws and regulations, negotiation can be carried out first. If the negotiation fails, the other party can pursue liability for breach of contract.

Legal Analysis

If the flow rate is far lower than the minimum flow rate to ensure accuracy, it will result in no output (such as a vortex flowmeter) or the output signal will be cut off as a small signal. (such as differential pressure flowmeter), this is unfavorable to the supplier and unfair. In order to prevent the loss of benefits, for a specific set of heat energy metering equipment, the supply and demand parties often agree on a certain flow value as the "agreed lower limit flow" based on the flow measurement range and the reachable range, and agree that if the actual flow is less than the agreed value , charged according to the lower limit of charging traffic. The metrological administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level may set up metrological verification institutions as needed, or authorize metrological verification institutions of other units to perform compulsory verification and other verification and testing tasks. Personnel who perform the calibration and testing tasks specified in the preceding paragraph must pass the assessment. This function is usually implemented in flow display instruments. The metrological administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall establish public measuring standard instruments based on the needs of the region, and they shall be used after passing the assessment conducted by the metrological administrative department of the people's government at the higher level. Enterprises and public institutions may, according to their needs, establish measurement standard instruments for their own use. Their highest measurement standard instruments shall be used after passing the assessment conducted by the measurement administrative department of the relevant people's government. Metrological verification work should be carried out locally and nearby in accordance with the principle of economic and reasonableness. Metrology verification must be carried out in accordance with the National Metrology Verification System Table. The National Metrology Verification System Table is formulated by the metrological administrative department of the State Council.

Legal Basis

Article 500 of the "People's Liberation Army and Civil Code of the People's Republic of China" If any of the following circumstances occurs during the process of concluding a contract, causing losses to the other party, the parties shall bear compensation Responsibilities: (1) Negotiating in bad faith under the guise of entering into a contract; (2) Deliberately concealing important facts related to the conclusion of the contract or providing false information; (3) Other acts that violate the principle of good faith.

Article 509: The parties shall fully perform their obligations as agreed. The parties shall abide by the principle of good faith and perform obligations such as notification, assistance, and confidentiality in accordance with the nature, purpose and transaction practices of the contract. During the performance of the contract, the parties shall avoid wasting resources, polluting the environment and damaging the ecology.