Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Rights of Unpaid Seller Against the Goods
46. How stoppage in transit is effected
Feedback & supportThe unpaid seller may exercise his right of stoppage in transit either by taking actual possession of the goods or by giving notice of his claim to the carrier or other bailee or custodier in whose possession the goods are.
The notice may be given either to the person in actual possession of the goods or to his principal.
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;
If given to the principal, the notice is ineffective unless given at such time and under such circumstances that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, may communicate it to his servant or agent in time to prevent a delivery to the buyer.
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;
When notice of stoppage in transit is given by the seller to the carrier or other bailee or custodier in possession of the goods, he must re-deliver the goods to, or according to the directions of, the seller; and the expenses of the re-delivery must be borne by the seller.