Sale of Goods Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Supplementary
62. Savings: rules of law, etc.
Feedback & supportThe rules in bankruptcy relating to contracts of sale apply to those contracts, notwithstanding anything in this Act.
The rules of the common law, including the law merchant, except in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and in particular the rules relating to the law of principal and agent and the effect of fraud, misrepresentation, duress or coercion, mistake, or other invalidating cause, apply to contracts for the sale of goods.
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;
Nothing in this Act affects the enactments relating to bills of sale.
The provisions of this Act about contracts of sale do not apply to a transaction in the form of a contract of sale which is intended to operate by way of mortgage, pledge, charge, or other security.
contract of sale
“contract of sale” includes an agreement to sell as well as a sale;