Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Effects of the Contract
20. Risk prima facie passes with property
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goods
“goods” includes all personal chattels other than things in action and money; and in particular “goods” 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 and includes an undivided share in goods;
But where delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller, the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault.
delivery
“delivery” means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another except that, in relation to sections 20A and 20B, it includes such appropriation of goods to the contract as results in property in the goods being transferred to the buyer;
Nothing in this section affects the duties or liabilities of either seller or buyer as a bailee or custodier of the goods of the other party.