Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Formation of the Contract
3. Capacity to buy and sell
Feedback & supportCapacity to buy and sell is regulated by the general law concerning capacity to contract and to transfer and acquire property.
property
“property” means the general property in goods, and not merely a special property;
Where necessaries are sold and delivered to a minor or to a person who by reason of mental incapacity or drunkenness is incompetent to contract, he must pay a reasonable price for them.
In subsection (2), “necessaries” means goods suitable to the condition in life of the minor or other person concerned and to his actual requirements at the time of the sale and delivery.
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;