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CHAPTER XV. 



Buying at Fairs and in Market Overt, and 

 the Recovery of Stolen Horses. 



According to English law it is a rule that a 

 person cannot sell or transfer property belonging 

 to another person without the consent of the owner ; 

 yet he can do so in market overt (pubUc market), 

 provided that the sale and the delivery take place 

 within the market overt ; so that a buyer of stolen 

 goods may acquire a title to them in this manner ; 

 but these remarks are not applicable to a stolen 

 horse, unless the statutes of PhiUp and Mary, 

 and of EUzabeth, are compUed with, and, even 

 then, the sale does not do away with the proprietor- 

 ship of the original owner. By these statutes it is 

 enacted that the animal for sale shall be openly 

 exposed in the time of such fair or market for one 

 whole hour together, between ten in the morning 

 and sunset, in the pubhc place used for such sales, 

 and not in any private yard or stable, and after- 



