Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

TITLE 6
SALE OF GOODS

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS

271.   INTERPRETATION

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    (1)   In this Title, unless the context otherwise requires—

buyer” means a person who buys or agrees to by goods;

contract of Sale” includes an agreement to sell;

delivery” means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another;

fault” means wrongful act or default;

future goods” means goods to be manufactured or acquired by the seller after the making of the contract of sale;

goods” include all corporeal movables except money;

property” means the general property in goods, and not merely a special property;

quality of goods” includes their state or condition;

sale” includes a bargain and sale as well as a sale and delivery;

seller” means a person who sells or agrees to sell goods;

specific goods” means goods identified and agreed upon at the time a contract of sale is made;

warranty” means an agreement with reference to goods which are the subject of a contract of sale, but collateral to the main purpose of such contract, the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages, but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated.

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    (2)   Goods are deemed to be “in a deliverable state” when they are in such a state that the buyer would under the contract be bound to take delivery of them.