“The problem with this decision is rather simple — it eviscerates the general principle in the law that one cannot grant a thing one does not have.
This is why, if you buy a stolen car, you don’t get to keep it when the theft is discovered. You can’t be prosecuted for unwittingly buying the car, but the seller has no title to the vehicle to convey, and therefore he conveyed nothing. You thus have no claim to the property.
