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Per aversionem

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A sale in bulk.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat.

In the civll law. By turning away. A term applied to that kind of sale where the goods are taken in bulk, and not by weight or measure, and for a single price; or where a piece of land is sold as containing in gross, by estimation, a certain number of acres. Poth. Cont. Sain, nn. 256, 309. So called because the buyer acts without particular examination or discrimination, turning his face, as it were, away. Calvin.