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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Sale of goods - Rights of unpaid seller against goods - Stopping goods in transit

181: Part delivery

You could also call this:

“Seller can stop delivering the rest if you only got some goods”

If you have received only some of the goods that you bought, the seller can still stop the rest of the goods from being delivered to you. However, this only applies if the part of the goods you received wasn’t given to you in a way that shows the seller agreed to give you all of the goods. This rule is about stopping goods while they are being transported to you.

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Part 3 Sale of goods
Rights of unpaid seller against goods: Stopping goods in transit

181Part delivery

  1. If part delivery of the goods has been made to the buyer, or the buyer’s agent in that behalf, the remainder of the goods may be stopped in transit, unless the part delivery has been made under circumstances that show an agreement to give up possession of all of the goods.

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