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Restraint upon alienation

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From 220 U.S. 373 - Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. · 1911Most cited · 1,362 citing opinions

a general restraint upon alienation is ordinarily invalid. 'The right of alienation is one of the essential incidents of a right of general property in movables, and restraints upon alienation have been generally regarded as obnoxious to public policy, which is best subserved by great freedom of traffic in such things as pass from hand to hand.