Note 24 — Chapter X · The Obligation Arising From Property.
A. C. (Archibald Colin) Campbell translation
The following extracts from Blackstone's Com. b. ii. ch. xxx. will elucidate the meaning of our author in this place. "Sale or EXCHANGE is a transmutation of property from one man to another, in consideration of some price or recompense; for there is no sale without a recompence." P. 446.
"Where the vendor HATH in himself the property of the goods sold, he hath the liberty of disposing of them to whom ever he pleases, at any time, and in any manner." Ibid. 446.
"And notwithstanding any number of intervening sales, if the original vendor, who sold without having the property, comes again into possession of the goods, the original owner may take them, when found in his hands who was guilty of the first breach of justice." Ibid. p. 450.