Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Effects of the Contract
21. Sale by person not the owner
Feedback & supportSubject to this Act, where goods are sold by a person who is not their owner, and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner, the buyer acquires no better title to the goods than the seller had, unless the owner of the goods is by his conduct precluded from denying the seller’s authority to sell.
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;
Nothing in this Act affects —
the provisions of the Factors Act 1889 or any enactment enabling the apparent owner of goods to dispose of them as if he were their true owner;
the validity of any contract of sale under any special common law or statutory power of sale or under the order of a court of competent jurisdiction.