Limitation Act 1950

  • repealed
  • Limitation Act 1950: repealed, on 1 January 2011, by section 57 of the Limitation Act 2010 (2010 No 110).
5 Limitation in case of successive conversions, and extinction of title of owner of converted goods
  • (1) Where any cause of action in respect of the conversion or wrongful detention of a chattel has accrued to any person and, before he recovers possession of the chattel, a further conversion or wrongful detention takes place, no action shall be brought in respect of the further conversion or detention after the expiration of 6 years from the accrual of the cause of action in respect of the original conversion or detention.

    (2) Where any such cause of action has accrued to any person and the period prescribed for bringing that action and for bringing any action in respect of such a further conversion or wrongful detention as aforesaid expires without his having commenced action to recover possession of the chattel, the title of that person to the chattel shall be extinguished.

    (3) Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of subsection (1) of section 26of the Sale of Goods Act 1908.

    Compare: Limitation Act 1939, s 3 (UK)