1950_SALE_OF_GOODS_ORDINANCE — Page 2

SALE OF GOODS.

CHAPTER 26.

SALE OF GOODS.

To codify the law relating to the sale of goods.

[CAP. 26

[1st August, 1896.]

Originally

7 of 1896. Fraser

4 of 1896.

66 & 57 Vict. c. 71.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sale of Goods Ordinance.

Short title.

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2. In this Ordinance-

"action" includes suit, counterclaim, and set-off; "buyer" means a person who buys or agrees to buy goods; "contract of sale" includes an agreement to sell as well as a sale;

"delivery" means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another;

"document of title to goods" includes any bill of lading, dock warrant, warehouse keeper's certificate, and warrant or order for the delivery of goods, and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented;

"fault" means wrongful act or default;

"future goods" means goods to be manufactured or acquired by the seller after the making of the contract of sale; "goods" include all chattels personal other than things in action and money. The term includes emblements, industrial growing crops, and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale;

"plaintiff" includes a defendant counterclaiming; "property" means the general property in goods, and not merely a special property;

"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" means goods identified and agreed upon at the time a contract of sale is made;

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Interpretation.