Queensland Consolidated Acts

SALE OF GOODS ACT 1896 - SECT 24

24 Sale by person not the owner

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, when goods are sold by a person who is not the owner thereof, and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent of the owner, the buyer acquires no better title to the goods than the seller had, unless the owner of the goods is by the owner’s conduct precluded from denying the seller’s authority to sell.

(2) This Act does not affect—

(a) the provisions of the Factors Act, or any enactment enabling the apparent owner of goods to dispose of them as if the apparent owner were the true owner thereof;

(b) the validity of any contract of sale under any special common law or statutory power of sale or under the order of a court of competent jurisdiction.