Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

CHAPTER SECOND
THE CAPACITY TO BUY OR SELL

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    1392.   The capacity to buy or sell is governed by the general rules, relating to the capacity to contract, contained in Chapter First, of the Book respecting Obligations.

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    1393.   (Repealed by Act 34 of 1956)

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    1394.   The following persons cannot either in their own name or through third parties, except at judicial sales, become buyers of property entrusted to them in their respective capacities:—

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    Tutors, curators, agents for sale, whether public officers or private persons, executors, administrators, trustees or fiduciary institutes.

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    The incapacity established in this article cannot be set up by the buyer; but only by the owner and others having an interest in the thing sold.

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    1395.   Judges, advocates, attorneys, clerks, sheriffs, and other officers connected with courts of justice, cannot, either in their own name or through third parties, buy litigious rights which fall under the jurisdiction of the Court in which they exercise their functions.