Question 3 (a)

Goods under the Sale of Goods Act

5 marks

Time to write
About 10 minutes

From an older CBCS paper

Question

Question 3 (a) · 5 marks

Define the term Goods under Sale of Goods Act.

Reworded from the university paper; the task is the same. The original paper belongs to the University of Delhi. See DU's question bank.

Before you write

Read off the question and its marks

10 minfor 5 marks

Read from the question

  • DefineA precise definition in one or two lines.

Write it in this order

  1. Read; underline the asks; jot your points 1 min
  2. 1 Definition 3 marks 5 min
  3. 2 Inclusions, exclusions and types 2 marks 3 min
  4. Check: every ask answered, key terms underlined 1 min

Easy marks

  • Step 1 opens with the meaning: a one-line definition, the quickest mark in it.

Short on time? Trim steps 1 and 2 evenly rather than skip one: each is capped at its own marks.

Try it first. About 10 minutes for 5 marks. Write it out, then open the solution.

Solution

Hover or tap a marked figure, like 72,000, to see how it is made and where else it appears.

Goods (s. 2(7), Sale of Goods Act, 1930) means every kind of movable property other than actionable claims and money; it includes stock and shares, growing crops, grass, and things attached to or forming part of the land that are agreed to be severed from it before the sale or under the contract of sale.

Includes and excludes

  • Excluded: money, and actionable claims, which can be enforced only by an action or suit, such as a debt. Land and buildings are immovable property and so are not goods.
  • Intangible things count: goods include intangibles such as goodwill, patents, copyrights and trademarks, and also gas, water, steam and electricity.
  • Example (our own): a farmer who agrees to sell his standing sugarcane, to be cut and delivered after harvest, sells goods; the sale of his farmland is not a sale of goods.

Kinds of goods:

  • Existing goods: goods owned or possessed by the seller when the contract is made (s. 6). They are specific (identified and agreed upon when the contract is made, s. 2(14)), ascertained or unascertained.
  • Future goods and contingent goods complete the classification.

Where the 5 marks sit

#ComponentMarks
1Definition3
2Inclusions, exclusions and types2
Total5
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