Market Overt
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market overt · sales in market overt
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The Law of Torts
The common law rule under which a purchaser at an open market could acquire better title than the seller possessed.
The purchaser from an apparent owner may acquire, as under the common-law rule of sales in market overt, a better title than his vendor had;
In such a case a third person, even if he has no means of knowing the actual possessor’s want of title, cannot acquire a good title from him unless the sale is in market overt, or the transaction is within some special statutory protection, as that of the Factors Acts.
Law in a Free State
The English legal doctrine under which goods sold openly in a public market under prescribed conditions pass good title, illustrated via horse-dealing statutes.
and within forty days more prove such his property, by the oath of two witnesses, and tender to the person in possession such price as he bond fide paid for the horse in market overt.
If I appeal for guidance to the wise, the best they can do is to refer me to the writings of the lawyers, where I shall find out all about market overt and a good many other “wise regulations by which the law hath secured the right of the proprietor of personal chattels from being divested, so far as is consistent with that other necessary policy that bonâ fide purchasers in a fair, open, and regu …