Queensland Consolidated Acts

SALE OF GOODS ACT 1896

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Interpretation of terms

           Part 2--Formation of the contract
           Contract of sale

   4.      Sale and agreement to sell
   5.      Capacity to buy and sell
           Formalities of the contract
   6.      Contract of sale, how made
           Subject matter of contract
   8.      Existing or future goods
   9.      Goods which have perished
   10.     Goods perishing before sale, but after agreement to sell
           The price
   11.     Ascertainment of price
   12.     Agreement to sell at valuation
           Conditions and warranties
   13.     Stipulations as to time
   14.     When condition to be treated as warranty
   15.     Implied undertaking as to title etc.
   16.     Sale by description
   17.     Implied conditions as to quality or fitness
           Sale by sample
   18.     Sale by sample

           Part 3--Effects of the contract
           Transfer of property as between seller and buyer

   19.     Goods must be ascertained
   20.     Property passes when intended to pass
   21.     Rules for ascertaining intention
   22.     Reservation of right of disposal
   23.     Risk prima facie passes with property
           Transfer of title
   24.     Sale by person not the owner
   25.     Sale under voidable title
   26.     Revesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender
   27.     Seller or buyer in possession after sale
   28.     Effect of writs of execution

           Part 4--Performance of the contract

   29.     Duties of seller and buyer
   30.     Payment and delivery are concurrent conditions
   31.     Rules as to delivery
   32.     Delivery of wrong quantity
   33.     Instalment deliveries
   34.     Delivery to carrier
   35.     Risk where goods are delivered at distant place
   36.     Buyer's right of examining the goods
   37.     Acceptance
   38.     Buyer not bound to return rejected goods
   39.     Liability of buyer for neglecting or refusing delivery of goods
           Part 5
           Rights of unpaid seller against the goods
   40.     Unpaid seller defined
   41.     Unpaid seller's right
           Unpaid seller's right of retention
   42.     Seller's right of retention
   43.     Part delivery
   44.     Termination of right of retention
           Stoppage in transitu
   45.     Right of stoppage in transitu
   46.     Duration of transit
   47.     How stoppage in transitu is effected
           Resale by buyer or seller
   48.     Effect of sub-sale or pledge by buyer
   49.     Sale not generally rescinded by lien or stoppage in transitu

           Part 6--Actions for breach of the contract
           Remedies of the seller

   50.     Action for price
   51.     Damages for non-acceptance
           Remedies of the buyer
   52.     Damages for non-delivery
   53.     Specific performance
   54.     Remedy for breach of warranty
   55.     Interest and special damages

           Part 7--Supplementary

   56.     Exclusion of implied terms and conditions
   57.     Reasonable time a question of fact
   58.     Rights etc. enforceable by action
   59.     Auction sales
   61.     Savings
           Endnotes