Remedies for breach of contract under sale of goods act 1930
The Sale of Goods Act 1930 (hereinafter the Act) contains various provisions of the contract, the breach of which gives rise to a right to treat the contract as By Nidhi Singh, National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi. Editor’s Note: The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 was enacted as the law relating to the sale of goods under the Indian Contract Act was considered to be inadequate. Here a focus has been drawn to the remedies available to either party for breach of the contract of sale by the other. But the legislature realized that this was insufficient, and a separate Act was needed to govern the sale of goods. The Sale of Goods Act was introduced in the year 1930, and it was modeled after the English Statute of Sale of Goods, 1893. Three kinds of remedies are mentioned under the Sale of Goods Act, relating to the breach of contract.