Sale of Goods Act · s 23

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s 23Transfer of title

(1)

Subjectto this Act, where goods are sold by person who is not their owner, and who does not sell them under the authority or with the consent.ofthe owner, the buyer acquir-es no better title to the goods than the seller had, unless the owner of the goods is by his conduct precluded from denying the sseller's authority to sell.

(2)

Nothing in this Act affects-

(a)

the provisions of any law enabling the apparent owner of goods to dispose of them as if he were their true owner;

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(b)

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