On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:40:38 GMT, Rick Dipper
wrote:


Can you please tell me where this extreemly usefull informaation comes from ?

It isn't totally correct. Title (ownership) in the goods can pass to
you independently of risk (responsibility for loss) and it is the
point at which risk, not title, transferred in consumer transactions
which changed.

Prior to March of last year the Sale of Goods Act (SOGA) transferred
risk to the purchaser at the point of delivery to the carrier at the
sellers premises. For many years many suppliers had actually
accepted that risk during delivery was theirs up to the point of the
customers premises. The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers
Regulations 2002 amended the SOGA to make the seller at risk in
consumer transactions until the goods were delivered. It does not
prevent title passing before despatch.

Note that as was said the Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers
Regulations 2002 applies _only_ to sales to consumers. If you
purchase in a business name then the default is that risk still
transfers at the sellers premises and the suppliers T&C's can
override the SOGA.

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/