La Fetra v. Glover

That “no one can transfer to another a better title than he has himself, is a maxim,” says Chancellor Kent, “alike of the.common and civil law, and a sale ex vi termini imports nothing more than that the bona fide purchaser succeeds to 'the rights of the vendor.” 2 Kent’s Com.3 24.

In this case the jury, by their verdict, found that Seale & Co., the owners of the diamond pin, did not sell it to the Baroness Blanc, but loaned it to her, with the liberty of purchasing same 'on payment of a stated price. She never availed herself of the privilege of buying, never did buy, and the pin remained the…