Re: Rail reopening faces fresh delay

Peter Masson wrote:

> "Chris  Tolley" <cj.tolley@bogus.co.uk (ukonline really)> wrote in
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> news:1xgfu5s40e9r9.haudx3d3uu28.dlg@40tude.net...
>> Peter Masson wrote:
>>
>>> "E27002" <e27002@gmail.com> wrote
>>>
>>>> Welsh Law ceased to exist in the 1540s.
>>>
>>> There was at least one idiosyncrasy where the law in Wales differed from
>>> the
>>> law in England until the 1990s. In England until then, if you bought
>>> something between dawn and dusk at a recognised market the concept of
>>> 'market overt' applied, and you got good title to the item if it
>>> subsequently proved to have been stolen. This didn't apply in Wales, and
>>> was
>>> a source of trick questions for law students.
>>
>> I remember that from my law studies, which were in the 1980s. Does
>> "market overt" not apply any more, then?
>>
> Abolished for sales from 3 January 1995 by the Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act
> 1994.
> http://www.artlossreview.com/legal/legalarchive.php?id=1

Thanks. That's my learning done for the day. ;-)

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