Redhibitio
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
or REDHIBITION. The civil-law name for buyer's rescission of the contract of sale; the returning a thing purchased for defects, and annulling the sale.
Redhibitory action
A suit to annul a sale for defect of the thing as delivered. Redhibitory defect, fault, or vice. One which entitles the buyer to return the thing bought, and rescind the sale.