NO ONE CAN GIVE WHAT THEY DO NOT HAVE
A centuries-old, Latin legal maxim meaning a person cannot transfer ownership of (sell) goods that they, themselves, do not possess to begin with. The Nemo Dat rule has become common law (with some exceptions) and generally sees the good/item being returned to the original possessor, or equivalent compensation being made. The new purchaser of the good -though innocent- has no claim over the item as the seller never had ownership to transfer to them to begin with. The original owner of the good is not obligated to compensate the new purchaser.
With the Nemo Dat rule having become common law/practice in our society and legal system, there seems to be a big, glaring omission to its precedence…
*LANDBACK*
$1 from every sticker sold is donated to NDN’s Landback Action Network. I encourage you to read their manifesto here, which incorporates land stewardship, conservation and respect, intersectionality, food sovereignty, Palestinian freedom, the ancestral practice of resource sharing, reparations, abolition…Just read it all in their own words.
3.5×2.5” inches, waterproof sticker - original artwork/lettering by kita (thats me!) printed in small batches in my home studio, featuring flowers i see in my Chicago (Shikaakwa) neighborhood on (per the Indigenous-led Native Land mapping) the ancestral lands of the Peoria, Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), Hoocak (Ho-Chunk), Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Myaamia, and Očhéthi Šakówin people.
NO ONE CAN GIVE WHAT THEY DO NOT HAVE
A centuries-old, Latin legal maxim meaning a person cannot transfer ownership of (sell) goods that they, themselves, do not possess to begin with. The Nemo Dat rule has become common law (with some exceptions) and generally sees the good/item being returned to the original possessor, or equivalent compensation being made. The new purchaser of the good -though innocent- has no claim over the item as the seller never had ownership to transfer to them to begin with. The original owner of the good is not obligated to compensate the new purchaser.
With the Nemo Dat rule having become common law/practice in our society and legal system, there seems to be a big, glaring omission to its precedence…
*LANDBACK*
$1 from every sticker sold is donated to NDN’s Landback Action Network. I encourage you to read their manifesto here, which incorporates land stewardship, conservation and respect, intersectionality, food sovereignty, Palestinian freedom, the ancestral practice of resource sharing, reparations, abolition…Just read it all in their own words.
3.5×2.5” inches, waterproof sticker - original artwork/lettering by kita (thats me!) printed in small batches in my home studio, featuring flowers i see in my Chicago (Shikaakwa) neighborhood on (per the Indigenous-led Native Land mapping) the ancestral lands of the Peoria, Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), Hoocak (Ho-Chunk), Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Myaamia, and Očhéthi Šakówin people.
