Reports of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces (1867)

Twenty years after the auction sale the plaintiffs who were co-sharers in the joint estate sued for the demolition of the house and the restoration of the site to the village. [...] The second ground of appeal proceeds upon the assumtion that the land being deserted at the time of the sale the sellers had lost all right to it ; if it had appeared that the sellers at the time of the sale in execution or at any other time had relinquished and abandonded the land now in dispute and if it had appeared that the plaintiffs or any of the co-sharers had then or at any time [...] lst.--.4hat the goods were made over to the plaintiff by the agent of the owner and the owner himself after the dipatch to their destination by reason of his liability to hay the untlay incurred in the purchase and the dispatch by the plaintiff. [...] side and laden at the cost of the plaintiff who also supplied the money for the hire of the boats the advances to the boatmen. [...] hatever be the differences in the several systems of law as to the requisites to pass the property in moveables foring the subject of a complete contract of sale there apppars to-be a generat accord in regard to the seller's right to refuse delivery of the proper::: until paid by the vendee or till he receives from the buyer satisfactory assurance of payment.