Section 24 Sale of Goods Act 1893

Section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1893 is about Revesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender. It provides as follows:

(1) Where goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction, the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods, or his personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them, whether by sale in market overt or otherwise.

(2) Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary, where goods have been obtained by fraud or other wrongful means not amounting to larceny, the property in such goods shallnot revest in the person who was the owner of the goods, his personal representative, by reason only of the conviction of the offender.

(3) The provisions of this section do not apply to Scotland.

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