Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Rights of Unpaid Seller Against the Goods
39. Unpaid seller’s rights
Feedback & supportSubject to this and any other Act, notwithstanding that the property in the goods may have passed to the buyer, the unpaid seller of goods, as such, has by implication of law —
property
“property” means the general property in goods, and not merely a special property;
a lien on the goods or right to retain them for the price while he is in possession of them;
in case of the insolvency of the buyer, a right of stopping the goods in transit after he has parted with the possession of them;
a right of re-sale as limited by this Act.
Where the property in goods has not passed to the buyer, the unpaid seller has (in addition to his other remedies) a right of withholding delivery similar to and co‑extensive with his rights of lien or retention and stoppage in transit where the property has passed to the buyer.
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;