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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A small quantity of any commodity or merchandise, exhibited as a specimen of a larger quantity, called the "bulk." A fair representation of the whole; a part shown as a specimen.
33 Gratt. (Va.) 904.
When a sale is made by sample, and it afterwards turns out that the bulk does not correspond with it, the purchaser is not, in general, bound to take the property on a compensation being made to him for the difference.
1 Campb. 113. See 2 East, 314; 4 Campb. 22; 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 20; 12 Wend. (N. Y.) 413, 566; 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 395; 6 N. Y. 73, 95; 13 Mass. 139; 2 Nott & McC. (S. C.) 538; 3 Rawle (Pa.) 37; 14 Mees & W. 651.
SANAE MENTIS (Lat.) In old English law. Of sound mind. Fleta, lib.
3, c.
7, § 1. dained against those who should violate it.
Inst. 2. 1. 10.