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Vender

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A seller.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

vendre, Z. /r.

In old English law. To sell; to vend. Vendii: sold.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Another form of vendor, q. V. VENDITIO; VENDITION. The Latin tei-m and its Anglicized form for " sale; " the transfer of property for a price. Also, for " a sale," or some particular disposal of property. Venditioni exponas. That you expose for sale. The emphatic clause, and also the name, of a writ of execution commanding the sheriff to expose to sale goods already taken by him under a, fieri facias. According to old English practice, it should issue upon a return by the sherifE that he has taken goods which remain in his hands unsold for lack of buyers. But the proceedings on the various writs of execution are regulated in the United States by the law and practice of each state; and in many of the states the venditioni exponas is not used. The name of the writ is commonly abbreviated to vend. exp.