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Unless a contrary intention appears, the following are the rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer'
(a)where there is an unconditional contract for the sale of specific goods in a deliverable state, the property in the goods passes to the buyer when the contract is made, and it is immaterial whether the time of payment or the time of delivery or both are postponed;
(b)where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods, for the purpose of putting them into a deliverable state, the property shall not pass until that thing is done, and the buyer has notice of it;
(c)where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods in a deliverable state, but the seller is bound to weigh, measure, test or do some other act or thing with reference to the goods for the purpose of ascertaining the price, the property does not pass until that act or thing is done, and the buyer has notice of it;
(d)when goods are delivered to the buyer on approval or "on sale or return" or other similar terms, the property in the goods shall pass to the buyer'
(i)when he or she signifies his or her approval or acceptance to the seller or does any other act adopting the transaction; or
(ii)if he or she does not signify his or her approval or acceptance to the seller but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods, on the expiration of that time, and if no time has been fixed, on the expiration of a reasonable time;
(e)where there is a contract for the sale of unascertained or future goods by description, and goods of that description, and in a deliverable state, are unconditionally appropriated to the contract, either by the seller with the assent of the buyer, or by the buyer with the assent of the seller, the property in the goods passes to the buyer and any such assent may be express or implied and may be given before or after the appropriation is made;
(f)where, under the contract, the seller delivers the goods to the buyer or to a carrier or other bailee whether named by the buyer or not, for the purpose of transmission to the buyer, and does not reserve the right of disposal, he or she is taken to have unconditionally appropriated the goods to the contract;
(g)where there is a contract for the sale of a specified quantity of unascertained goods in a deliverable state forming part of a bulk which is identified in the contract or by subsequent agreement between the parties and the bulk is reduced to, less than that quantity, if the buyer under that contract is the only buyer to whom goods are due out of the bulk, the remaining goods shall be taken as appropriated to that contract at the time when the bulk is reduced and the property in those goods shall pass to that buyer;
(h)paragraph (g) applies also, with necessary modifications where a bulk is reduced to, or to less than the total of the quantities due to a single buyer under separate contracts relating to that single buyer and he or she is the only one to whom goods are then due out of that bulk.
Unless you and the seller agree otherwise, specific rules decide exactly when you become the owner of goods you buy. If you buy specific goods in a de...
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