Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Rights of Unpaid Seller Against the Goods
41. Seller’s lien
Feedback & supportSubject to this Act, the unpaid seller of goods who is in possession of them is entitled to retain possession of them until payment or tender of the price in the following cases:
where the goods have been sold without any stipulation as to credit;
where the goods have been sold on credit but the term of credit has expired;
where the buyer becomes insolvent.
The seller may exercise his lien or right of retention notwithstanding that he is in possession of the goods as agent or bailee or custodier for 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;