From cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx Tue Feb 2 19:32:56 1999
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 22:32:56 -0500 (EST)
From: John Cowan <cowan@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Subject: Re: Inalienable

Sylvain Auclair scripsit:

> In French, inaliénable really means : which cannot be sold away. In
> legalese, aliéner means sell away.

Just so in Anglo-American law: "inalienable" means things that cannot
be "alienated", or sold. Actually "sell" is only the most common
case: they cannot be given away or transferred by will either.

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John Cowan	cowan@ccil.org
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.