Market Overt
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
An open and public market. Tha marketplace or spot of ground set apart by custom for the sale of particular goods is, in the country, the only market overt; but in London every shop in which goods are exposed publicly to sale is market overt, for such things only as the owner professes to trade in. Godb. 131; 5 Coke, 83; 2 Bl. Comm. 449, MARKET PRICE means, when price atthe place of exportation is in view, the price at which articles are sold and purchased, clear of every charge but such as is laid upon il at the time of sale.
2 Wash. C. ©, 493.