Malaysian Sale of Goods Act 1957

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Malaysian Sale of Goods Act 1957 Sale of goods A contract of sale of goods is a contract where the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property of goods to the buyer for exchange of a price. There may be a contract of sale between the owner and another. A contract of sale may be absolute or conditional. Where under a contract of sale the property in the goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer (a person who buys or agrees to buy goods), the contract is called a sale, but where the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition thereafter to be fulfilled, the contract is called an agreement to sell. An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time elapses or the conditions are fulfilled and the property of the goods is delivered (delivery means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another). How sale is made A contract of sale is made when an offer buys or sells goods for a price and the acceptance of such an offer. The contract might have immediate delivery of the goods or immediate payment of the price or both, for the delivery or payment by installments, or that the delivery or payment or both shall be postponed. A contract of sale may be made writing or by word of mouth, or partly in writing and partly by word of mouth or may be implied from the conduct of the parties. When a person buys an item from another person two concepts are involved. One is the legal transfer of ownership of the goods, which is called “passing of title”. The other is the goods being physically passed over to the buyer, which gives the control of the product. The words “passing” and “title” are two very basic words. “Passing” is moving from one point to another or from one person to another. “Title” on the other hand refers to amongst others to ownership or evidence of ownership. Therefore,

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