A Romalpa clause provides that, even after delivery, the seller retains title to goods agreed to be sold, until payment of the price of those goods or, in many cases, until payment of all sums due to the seller from the buyer. Its object is that, should payment not eventuate, the goods, though in the buyer's possession, are still the seller's property and available for resale by him. In the Scottish appeal of Armour v. Thyssen Edelstahlwerke A. G.1 the House of Lords encountered this example of a Romalpa clause: