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Sale of Goods Act · 1999 Revised Edition · Part VI
Sale of Goods Act · 1999 Revised Edition · Part VI
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where the seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver the goods to the buyer, the buyer may maintain an action against the seller for damages for non-delivery.
Sale of Goods
CAP. 170 31
The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the seller's breach of contract.
Wherethere isan availablemarket for the goods in question the measure of damages is prima facie to be ascertained by the differencebetweenthe contract price and the market or current price of the goods at the time or times when they ought to have been delivered of (if no time was fixed)at the time or the refusalto deliver.
Part VII