Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Goods Act 1958 - SECT 31

Buyer in possession after sale

31. Buyer in possession after sale

Where a person having bought or agreed to buy goods obtains with the consent
of the seller possession of the goods or the documents of title to the goods,
the delivery or transfer by that person or by a mercantile agent acting for
him of the goods or documents of title under any sale pledge or other
disposition thereof to any person receiving the same in good faith and without
notice of any lien or other right of the original seller in respect of the
goods shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or
transfer were a mercantile agent entrusted as such with the possession of the
goods or documents of title.

Contracts for the Sale of Wool or Sheep Skins