Section 11 - Agreement to sell at valuation
(1) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price isto be fixed by the valuation of a third party, and the third party cannot or does not make a valuation, the agreement is...
Section 12 - Stipulations as to time
(1) Unless a different intention appears from the terms of the contract,stipulations as to time of payment are not deemed to be of the essence of a contract of sale.
(2) Whether any other stipulation...
Section 15 - Conditions implied by description
Where there is a contract for the sale of goods by description, there is an implied condition that the goods shall correspond with the description; and, if the sale is by sample as well as by...
Section 17 - Sale by sample
(1) A contract of sale is a contract for sale by sample where there is a term inthe contract, express or implied, to that effect.
(2) In the case of a contract for sale by sample there is—
(a) an...
Section 22 - Risk prima facie passes with property
Unless otherwise agreed, the goods remain at the seller’s risk until the property therein is transferred to the buyer, but when the property therein is transferred to the buyer the goods are at the...
Section 23 - Sale by person not the owner
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, where goods are sold by a person whois not the owner thereof, and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner, the buyer...
Section 24 - Sale under voidable title
When the seller of goods has a voidable title thereto, but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale, the buyer acquires a good title to the goods, provided he buys them in good faith and...
Section 26 - Resale of goods in certain cases
(1) Where a person having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods, or of the documents of title to the goods, the delivery or transfer by that person, or by a mercantile agent acting for...
Section 27 - Effect of writs of execution
(1) A writ of fieri facias or other writ of execution against goods shall bind the property in the goods of the execution debtor as from the time when the writ is delivered to the sheriff to be...
Section 30 - Rules as to delivery
(1) Whether it is for the buyer to take possession of the goods or for the seller to send them to the buyer is a question depending in each case on the contract, express or implied, between the...
Section 32 - Delivery by instalments
(1) Unless otherwise agreed, the buyer of goods is not bound to accept deliverythereof by instalments.
(2) Where there is a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered by stated instalments and to...
Section 33 - Delivery to carrier as buyer’s agent
(1) Where, in pursuance of a contract of sale, the seller is authorised or required to send the goods to the buyer, delivery of the goods to the carrier, whether named by the buyer or not, for the...
Section 35 - Buyer’s right of examining the goods
(1) Where goods are delivered to the buyer which he has not previouslyexamined, he is not deemed to have accepted them unless and until he has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them for the...
Section 36 - Acceptance
The buyer is deemed to have accepted the goods when he intimates to the seller that he has accepted them or when the goods have been delivered to him, and he does any act in relation to them which is...
Section 39 - Unpaid seller defined
(1) The seller of goods is deemed to be an unpaid seller within the meaningof this Act—
(a) when the whole of the price has not been paid or tendered;
(b) when a bill of exchange or other negotiable...
Section 40 - Rights of unpaid seller
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, and of any Act in that behalf,notwithstanding that the property in the goods may have passed to the buyer, the unpaid seller of goods, as such, has by...
Section 41 - Seller’s lien
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the unpaid seller of goods who is inpossession of them is entitled to retain possession of them until payment or tender of the price in the following...
Section 42 - Lien after part delivery
Where an unpaid seller has made part delivery of the goods, he may exercise his right of lien or retention on the remainder unless the part delivery has been made under such circumstances as to show...
Section 43 - Termination of lien
(1) The unpaid seller of goods loses his lien or right of retention thereon—
(a) when he delivers the goods to a carrier or other bailee or custodier for the purpose of transmission to the buyer...
Section 44 - Right of stoppage in transitu
Subject to the provisions of this Act, when the buyer of goods becomes insolvent, the unpaid seller who has parted with the possession of the goods has the right of stopping them in transitu, that is...
Section 45 - Duration of transit
(1) Goods are deemed to be in course of transit from the time when they are delivered to a carrier by land, air or water, or other bailee or custodier for the purpose of transmission to the buyer,...
Section 46 - Mode of stoppage in transitu
(1) The unpaid seller may exercise his right of stoppage in transitu either by taking actual possession of the goods, or by giving notice of his claim to the carrier or other bailee or custodier in...
Section 47 - Effect of subsale or pledge by buyer
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the unpaid seller’s right of lien or retention or stoppage in transitu is not affected by any sale or other disposition of the goods which the buyer may have...
Section 49 - Action for price
(1) Where, under a contract of sale, the property in the goods has passed to thebuyer, and the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to pay for the goods according to the terms of the contract, the...
Section 50 - Action for non-acceptance
(1) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay forthe goods, the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for nonacceptance.
(2) The measure of damages is the...
Section 51 - Action for non-delivery
(1) Where the seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver the goods to the buyer, the buyer may maintain an action against the seller for damages for Non delivery.
(2) The measure of damages is...
Section 52 - Right to specific performance
(1) In any action for breach of contract to deliver specific or ascertained goodsthe court may, if it thinks fit, on the application of the plaintiff, by its judgment or decree direct that the...
Section 53 - Remedy for breach of warranty
(1) Where there is a breach of warranty by the seller, or where the buyer elects, or is compelled, to treat any breach of a condition on the part of the seller as a breach of warranty, the buyer is...
Section 54 - Interest and special damages
Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the buyer or the seller to recover interest or special damages in any case whereby law interest or special damages may be recoverable, or to recover money...
Section 55 - Variation, etc., of implied rights
Where any right, duty or liability would arise under a contract of sale by implication of law, it may be negatived or varied by express agreement or by the course of dealing between the parties, or by...
Section 56 - Reasonable time
Where, by this Act, any reference is made to a reasonable time, the question what is reasonable time is a question of fact.
Section 58 - Auction sales
(1) In the case of sale by auction—
(a) where goods are put up for sale by auction in lots, each lot is prima facie deemed to be the subject of a separate contract of sale;
(b) a sale by auction is...
Section 59 - Savings
(1) The rules in bankruptcy relating to contracts of sale shall continue to apply thereto, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act.
(2) The rules of the common law, including the law merchant,...