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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sale-of-goods-act-1893/section-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Capacity to buy and sell",
  "text": "Capacity to buy and sell is regulated by the general Haw concerning capacity to contract, and to transfer and .acquire property:\nProvided that where necessaries are sold and delivered to an infant, or minor, or to a person who by reason of mental incapacity or drunkenness is incompetent to contract, he must pay a reasonable price therefor.\nNecessaries in this section mean goods suitable to the condition in life of such infant or minor or other person, and to his actual requirements at the time of the sale and delivery.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/56-57/71/section/2",
    "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."
}