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Under English law before the market-overt rule was abolished in 1995, a sale in market overt was an…

Historically, the market-overt rule allowed a qualifying good-faith buyer to obtain good title even where the seller lacked it. It therefore operated as an exception to nemo…

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Under English law before the market-overt rule was abolished in 1995, a sale in market overt was an exception to :

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Historically, the market-overt rule allowed a qualifying good-faith buyer to obtain good title even where the seller lacked it. It therefore operated as an exception to nemo dat quod non habet, the rule that a person cannot transfer a better title than they possess.

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