THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH APRIL, 1896.
"Quality of goods" includes their state or condition :
"Sale" includes a bargain and sale as well as a sale
and delivery:
"Seller" means a person who sells or agrees to sell
goods:
Specific goods" mean goods identified and agreed
upon at the time a contract of sale is made: "Warranty" means an agreement with reference to goods which are the subject of a contract of sale, but collateral to the main purpose of such con- tract, the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages, but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated.
(2) A thing is deemed to be done "in good faith" within the meaning of this Ordinance when it is in fact done honestly, whether it be done negligently or not.
(3) A person is deemed to be insolvent within the meaning of this Ordinance who either has ceased to pay his debts in the ordinary course of business, or cannot pay his debts as they become due, whether he has committed an act of bankruptcy or not, and whether he has been adjudged bankrupt or not.
(4) Goods are in a "deliverable state" within the mean- ing of this Ordinance when they are in such a state that the buyer would under the contract be bound to take deli- very of them.
61. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
82. This Ordinance may be cited as The Sale of Goods Ordinance, 1896.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of April, 1896.
Commence nient.
Short title.
F. J. BADELEY, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 16th day of April, 1896.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
This schedule is to be read as referring to the revised edition of the statutes prepared under the direction of the Statute Law Committee.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED.
Session and Chapter.
Title of Act and Extent of Repeal.
1 Jac. 1. c. 21.
29 Cha. 2. c. 3.
9 Geo. 4. c. 14.
Ordinance 13 of 1864,
An Act against brokers.
The whole Act.
An Act for the prevention of frauds and
perjuries.
In part; that is to say, sections
fifteen and sixteen."
An Act for rendering a written mcmoran- dum necessary to the validity of certaih promises and engagements.
In part; that is to say, section
seven.
The Mercantile Law Amendment Ordi-
nance, 1864,
In part; that is to say, sections
two and three.
* Commonly cited as sections sixteen and seventeen.
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