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Example II X delivered some jeweller, to Y on sale or return without specifying any time for its return in case -of non-acceptance. State the legal position in each of the following alternative cases:
Case (a) If Y pledges the jewellery with Z.
Case (b) If X makes it clear that the goods are to remain his property until paid for. 1 Before Y pays the price, he pledges the jewellery with Z
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ase (c) If Y neither accepts nor rejects within one month and after a month a burglary takes place in Y's house and the jewellery is stolen.

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Case (a) X can recover the price of the jewellery from Y because ownership has passed to Y as Y had adopted the transaction by pledging the jewellery with Z. But X cannot recover the jewellery from Z. [kirkham v. Attenborough]
Case (b) X can recover the jewellery from Z because the pledge was not valid as the ownership has not yet transferred to Y.
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ase (c) X can sue Y for the price of the jewellery because a reasonable time to reje has expired. As such, the ownership has transferred to Y. [Hooghty Chinsurah Municipality v. Spence Ltd.]

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