Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Actions for Breach of the Contract
49. Action for price
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contract of sale
“contract of sale” includes an agreement to sell as well as a sale;
Where, under a contract of sale, the price is payable on a day certain irrespective of delivery and the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to pay such price, the seller may maintain an action for the price, although the property in the goods has not passed and the goods have not been appropriated to the contract.
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;