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Caveat Venditor

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In Roman lew. A maxim, or rule, casting the responsibility for defects or deficiencies upon the seller of goods, and expressing the exact opposite of the common law rule of caveat emptor, See 18 Wend. 449. In English and American jurisprudence. Caveat venditor is sometimes used a3 expressing, in a rough way, the rule which governs all those cases of sales to which caveat emptor does not apply.