Sale of Goods Act, 1930
4. Sale and agreement to sell
(1) A contract of sale of goods is a contract whereby the seller
transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a price.
There may be a contract of sale between one part-owner and another.
(2) A contract of sale may be absolute or conditional.
(3) Where under a contract of sale the property in the goods is
transferred from the seller to the buyer, the contract is called a sale, but
where the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future
time or subject to some condition thereafter to be fulfilled, the contract is
called an agreement to sell.
(4) An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time elapses or
the conditions are fulfilled subject to which the property in the goods is to be
transferred.