Sale of Goods Act 1957 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Chapter V · Rights of Unpaid Seller Against the Goods
46. Unpaid seller’s rights
Feedback & supportSubject to this Act and of any law for the time being in force, 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 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 resale 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 and stoppage in transit where the property has passed to the buyer.
goods
“goods” means every kind of movable property other than actionable claims and money; and includes stock and shares, growing crops, grass and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale; a person is said to be “insolvent” who has ceased to pay his debts in the ordinary course of business, or cannot pay his debts as they become due, whether he has committed an act of bankruptcy or not;
Unpaid seller’s lien