Can I buy Leopard retail second hand?

I lost my Mac OS X Retail Leopard install disc that I bought years ago. My friend is willing to sell me his Retail Leopard install disc however I thought I'd check with you to see if this is okay. He no longer uses Leopard as he sold his old iMac and now uses Mavericks on his new MacBook Pro.
So my question is this: Can I buy his second hand retail Leopard installation disc and safely install it on the G5 that I just picked up second hand? Or do I need find the retail version brand new on amazon or ebay etc.?
I'm asking this because with Microsoft Windows you need to buy it brand new because the serial only works with one machine. Which makes it very hard finding Windows XP retail version brand new and installing it legally.

You need to make sure you know what a retail disk is.
The normal distinction is that retail disks are black and model specific disks are grey but there are exceptions.
You also need to make sure you have an optical drive which can read the media.
My Leopard DVDs are 9.5 GB double layer and not all optical drives can read these.
OS X 10.5 does not require a serial number to install.
OS X 10.5 Server does require a serial number to install.
As far as I am aware neither will stop working if they have been used for multiple installs (legal or otherwise).

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The phone number for Apple Australia, in the web page header
on the top left side, may be a place to call and inquire of this item.
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*•Apple Store: 133-622* - +online Apple Store (AU):+ http://store.apple.com/au
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Wow, great response. Appreciate the efforts you guys went to.
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The original owner say he removed it from icloud's and wiped it.
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