Landmark case · Law of Contract – II · Semester 2

Lickbarrow v. Mason

(1787) 2 TR 63 · King's Bench

Transfer of a bill of lading can pass the property in goods at sea and founds an exception to the rule that no one can give a better title than he has.

From topic

Transfer of property and risk; nemo dat quod non habet — Unit IV, Law of Contract – II.

Related sections:

Sale of Goods Act, 1930, 18–20 — Property in unascertained goods; goods in a deliverable state
Sale of Goods Act, 1930, 26 — Risk prima facie passes with property
Sale of Goods Act, 1930, 27–30 — Sale by person not the owner and exceptions to nemo dat