{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-goods-act-1893/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/56-57/71",
  "legislation_title": "Sale of Goods Act 1893",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-goods-act-1893",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Sale and agreement to sell",
  "text": "(1) A contract of sale of goods is a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration, called the price. There may be a contract of sale between one part owner and another.\n(2) A contract of sale may be absolute or conditional.\n(3) Where under a contract of sale the property in the .goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer 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.\n(4) An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time elapses or the conditions are fulfilled subject to which the property in the goods is to be transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/71/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:30:10.043800+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}