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SYMBOLIC DELIVERY Definition & Legal Meaning

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The constructive delivery of the subject-matter of a sale, where it is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of some article which is conventionally accepted as the symbol or representative of it, or which renders access to it possible, or which is evidence of the purchaser’s title to It.

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