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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 355.2-403: Power to transfer -- Good faith purchase of goods -- "Entrusting."

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    (1) A purchaser of goods acquires all title which his transferor had or had power to

    transfer except that a purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the

    extent of the interest purchased. A person with voidable title has power to transfer a

    good title to a good faith purchaser for value. When goods have been delivered

    under a transaction of purchase the purchaser has such power even though

    (a) the transferor was deceived as to the identity of the purchaser, or

    (b) the delivery was in exchange for a check which is later dishonored, or

    (c) it was agreed that the transaction was to be a "cash sale," or

    (d) the delivery was procured through fraud punishable as larcenous under the

    criminal law.

    (2) Any entrusting of possession of goods to a merchant who deals in goods of that kind

    gives him power to transfer all rights of the entruster to a buyer in ordinary course

    of business.

    (3) "Entrusting" includes any delivery and any acquiescence in retention of possession

    regardless of any condition expressed bet ween the parties to the delivery or

    acquiescence and regardless of whether the procurement of the entrusting or the

    possessor's disposition of the goods have been such as to be larcenous under the

    criminal law.

    (4) The rights of other purchasers of goods a nd of lien creditors are governed by the

    articles on secured transactions (Article 9) and documents of title (Article 7).

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