Does a purchaser have good title to goods taken in execution and sold by the bailiff as against the real owner?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Strongman v. Dow, 1919 CanLII 194 (SK CA):
In Crane v. Ormerod [1903] 2 K.B. 37, 72 L.J.K.B. 507, it was held that where goods were taken in execution and sold by the bailiff and it subsequently appeared that they were not the property of the judgment debtor at the time of the seizure or sale, the purchaser did not acquire a good title to the goods as against the real owner.
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