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Caveat Venditor

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Let the seller beware. Lofft, 328; 18 Wend. (N. Y.) 449, 453; 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 353; 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 323; 5 N. Y. 73, 82.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Let the seller beware.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Roman law. 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 Wright v. Hart, 18 Wend. (N. Y.) 449.

In English and American jurisprudence. Caveat venditor is sometimes used as expressing, in a rough way, the rule which governs all those cases of sales to which caveat emptor does not apply.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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.