Redhibition

In civil law. The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of some defect or fraud. Calv. Lex. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders its use impossible, or so inconvenient and imperfect that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it had he known of the vice. Civ. Code La. art. 2496. This is essentially a civil-law right. The effect of the rule expressed by the maxim caveat emptor is to prevent any such right at common law, except in cases of express warranty. 2 Kent, Comm. 374; Sugd. Vend. 222.

In Civil Law. The avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders its use impossible or so inconvenient and imperfect that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it had he known of the vice. La. Civ. Code, art. 2496. This is essentially a civil-law right. The effect of the rule expressed by the maxim caveat emptor is to prevent any such right at common law, except in cases of express warranty. 2 Kent 374; Sugd. Vend. 222.

civil law, and in Louisiana. It is the avoidance of a sale on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and imperfect, that it must be supposed that the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice. Civ. Code of Lo. 2496. The rule of caveat emptor, (q- v-) in the common law places a purchaser in a different position from his situation under the like circum- seldom annul a sale or recover damages on account of a defect in the thing sold. Chitty, Contr. 133, et veq.; Sugd. Vend. 222.