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Stolen goods
of the goods or his personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them, whether by selling in market overt (see that title) or otherwise; but if obtained by fraud, etc., not amounting to larceny, aliter, Sale of … Stolen goods. As to restitution, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 45, and Arch Cr. Pr., 1934, pp. 293 et
Restitution of stolen goods
for value to an innocent purchaser [see s. 24 (1), Sale of Goods Act, 1893], but see MARKET OVERT; a sum not exceeding the proceeds of such sale out of the moneys taken from the guilty party
Misfeasance
A trespass a wrong arising from an overt act the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do
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Les lois ne se chargent depunir que les actions exterieures
Les lois ne se chargent depunir que les actions exterieures.-(Laws charge themselves with punishing overt acts only.) That is, 'so long as an act rests in bare intention it is not punishable.'
Compassing
act of the mind, cannot fall under any judicial cognizance unless it be demonstrated by some open, or overt, act, See 4 Bl. Com. 78.
Sedition
The raising of commotion in a state not amounting to insurrection conduct tending to treason but without an overt act excitement of discontent against the government or of resistance to lawful authority
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Matched in: Term Letters-patent, or letters overt
Sale of Goods Act, 1893
the property passes), the transfer of risk, the transfer of title, and the effect of sale in 'market overt' and of the conviction for larceny on the property in stolen goods. III. Performance of the Contract, in … Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (English) (56 & 57 Vict. c. 71), codifying the law of the sale of goods, in the
Pound
land of another (see DAMAGE FEASANT) may be kept until they are replevied or redeemed. It is either overt, i.e., open overhead; or covert, i.e., in a close. See 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 12, … not more than 4d. may be taken for any one whole distress impounded; the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737, s. 10, empowering any person lawfully distraining for rent to impound the distress on the premises chargeable
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