The Sale of Goods Act, 1930
Preamble
3 of 1930
(15th March, 1930)
An Act to define and amend the law relating to the sale of goods.
WHEREAS it is expedient to define and amend the law relating to the sale of goods, it is hereby enacted as follows: -
Chapter 1 - Preliminary
1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Sale of Goods Act, 1930.
2) It extends to the whole of India (except the State of Jammu and Kashmir).
(3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1930
2. Definitions .- In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject of content-
(1) ‘buyer" means a person who buys or agrees to buy goods,
(2) "delivery" means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another
3. Applications of provisions of Act 9 of 1882.- The unrepealed provisions of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 save insofar as they are inconsistent with the express provisions of this Act, shall continue to apply to contracts for sale of goods.
Chapter 2 - Formation of the Contract
4. Sale and agreement to sell.- (1) A contract of sale of goods is a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a price. There may be a contract of sale between one part-owner and another.
(2) A contract of sale may be absolute or conditional
(3) Where under a contract of sale the property in the goods in transferred from the seller to the buyer, the contract is called a sale, but where the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition thereafter to be fulfilled, the contract is called an agreement to sell.
(4) An agreement to sell ...