market overt
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Law French market overt, a calque of Anglo-Norman marché ouvert (“open market”).
Noun
- (law, England and Wales, historical) A (now abolished) rule in English law that overrode the general rule that the purported sale of stolen goods would not transfer ownership, if the goods were openly sold at a designated market between sunrise and sunset.
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