vend

To vend is also a term readily understood and of no doubtful import. Its use in the statute secured to the inventor the exclusive right to transfer the title for a consideration to others. In each case to vend is to part with the thing for a consideration.

To sell a chattel. As commonly used, it suggests an offering for sale to any buyer.

2 To transfer for an equivalent in money; to dispose of by sale; to sell. Applicable to merchandise or chattels. Vendible. Capable of being sold, salable; merchantable, marketable, qq. v. Vendor. The party by whom a sale is made. Vendee. He to whom a sale is made. Often confined to sales of realty. "Seller" and '* buyer " are more comprehensive, applying also to personalty. He is the vendor, rather than the grantor, who negotiates a sale of realty, and becomes the recipient of the consideration, though the title comes to the vendee from another source.'' A sale of personalty procured by fraud does not bind the vendor unless he afterward ratify the sale; and he may recover possession of the property or have damages for the conversion.* What acts upon the part of the vendee of a chattel amount to a fraud upon the vendor has not been imiformly settled.* See Lien, Vendor's.^ Vendue. A public sale by outcry; an auction, q. v. See Conveyance, 2; Deolaeation, 1; Deed, 2; Purchase, 2, 3; Eevendioation; Sale; Vianji Tio.