corporal touc

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CORPORAL TOUCH. It was once decided that before a seller of personal 
property could be said to have stopped it in transitu, so as to regain the 
possession of it, it was necessary that it should come to his corporal 
touch. 3 T. R. 466 5 East, 184. But the contrary is now settled. These words 
were used merely as a figurative expression. 3 T. R. 464 5 East, 184. 
    

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