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Negotiable instruments

common rule, freely assignable from one to another, such as bills of exchange and promissory notes. Any person acquiring a negotiable instrument for value and in good faith can enforce the contract contained in it against the

Natale

Natale, means the status a person acquires by birth. For example, if one or both parents of a child were serfs, the child was generally

Name

done.' Marriage confers a name upon a woman, which is not lost by her divorce, and she can acquire another only by obtaining it by repute obliterating her name by marriage, see Fendall v. Goldsmid, (1877) 2

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Market overt

Act, 1893, 'where goods are sold in market overt, according to the custom of the market, the buyer acquires a good title to the goods, provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any

Manufacturer

makes or manufactures such dangerous machine or part thereof, (ii) makes or manufactures one or more parts and acquires the other parts of such dangerous machine and, after assembling those parts, claims the end product to be

Mancipation

Mancipation, a legal formality for acquiring property by either an actual or a simulated purchase. The formality consisted in laying hold of a thing

London, Port of

Authority, and by that name shall continue to have perpetual succession and a common seal having power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act without licence in mortmain. (2) The several persons who

Cartel

words, it amounts to an unfair trade practice which is not in the public interest. The intention to acquire monopoly power can be spelt from formation of such a cartel by some of the producers, Union of

third possessor

third possessor in the civil law of Louisiana : one who acquires mortgaged property and is not personally bound for the obligation secured by the mortgage

Burial

payment is a Common Law right, but not burial in any particular part of it. In order to acquire a perfect right to be buried in a particular vault or place, a faculty must be obtained from

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