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Limitation Act 1985
18Successive wrongs to goods
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18 Successive wrongs to goods
If—
(a) a cause of action for the conversion or detention of goods
accrues to a person; and
(b) afterwards, possession of the goods not having been recovered
by him or her or by a person claiming through him or her, a
further cause of action for the conversion or detention of the
goods or a cause of action to recover the proceeds of sale of the
goods accrues to him or her or to a person claiming through him
or her;
an action on the further cause of action for conversion or detention or
on the cause of action to recover the proceeds of sale is not
maintainable if brought after the end of the limitation period
applicable to the firstmentioned cause of action.