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Transferable

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Capable of being passed to another. Railway passage tickets and personal privileges or licenses are often made "Not Transferable," i. e., valid only in the purchaser's hands.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The word includes action may at common law be brought in any every means by which property may be passcounty which the plaintiff elects. ed from one person to another. 17 Ch. Div. 9. Quo warranto proceedings against a cor-

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A term used in a quasi legal sense, to indicate that the character of assignability or negotiability attaches to the particular instrument or that it may pass from hand to hand, carrying all rights of the original holder. The words "not transferable" are sometimes printed upon a ticket, receipt or bill of lading, to show that the same will not be good in the hands of any person other than the one to whom first issued.