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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
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