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Caveat Emptor Latin for "let the buyer beware." The basic premise is that you are buying a product or property at your own risk and should personally examine and test for obvious defects and imperfections.

 


Caveat Emptor definition:
Let the buyer beware or that the buyers should examine and check for themselves things which they intend to purchase and that they cannot later hold the vendor responsible for the broken condition of the thing bought.

Caveat Emptor
(n) Doctrine of Caveat Emptor establishes the responsibility of the buyer to inspect and test the goods he aught to buy and put entire responsibility on the buyer for any defect in the product unless a warranty is given by the seller or ...

CAVEAT EMPTOR - Lat. 'buyer beware.' This rule used to generally apply to all sales, especially between individuals. It gives the buyer full responsibility for determining the quality of the goods in question.

Caveat Emptor:
Let the buyer beware.
CCAA - Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act:
An Act under which proposals or arrangements or compromising of debt is structured.

caveat emptor - "Let the buyer beware" encourages a purchaser to examine, judge and test for himself.

Caveat emptor
Literally, let the buyer beware. This means that buyers should examine and check for themselves anything which they intend to purchase, and that the vendor cannot be held responsible for the condition of the thing bought.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: Latin for "buyer beware." This rule generally applies to all sales between individuals. It gives the buyer full responsibility for determining the quality of the goods in question.

caveat emptor
(kah-vee-ott emptor) Latin for "let the buyer beware." The basic premise that the buyer buys at his/her own risk and therefore should examine and test a product himself/herself for obvious defects and imperfections.

caveat emptor: A theory that says you buy things at your own risk. Comes from the Latin for "let the buyer beware."
certification: A judge's order to move a criminal case to another court in a different county.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: A Latin phrase meaning 'let the buyer beware.
CAVEAT VENDITOR: A Latin phrase meaning 'let the seller beware.
CERTIFICATION : Decision made by the judge to try a juvenile in adult court.

CAVEAT EMPTOR. Let the purchaser take heed; that is, let him see to it, that the title he is buying is good. This is a rule of the common law, applicable to the sale and purchase of lands and other real estate.

Caveat emptor
Definition - Noun
[New Latin, may the buyer beware]
: a principle in commercial transactions: without a warranty the buyer takes the risk as to the condition of the property or goods ...

Caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) is a warning to buyers to check for themselves things which they intend to buy, so they cannot later hold the vendor responsible for the faulty condition of the item.

WH Hamilton, 'The Ancient Maxim Caveat Emptor' (1931) 50 Yale Law Journal 133, who shows that caveat emptor never had any place in Roman law, or civil law, or lex mercatoria and was probably a mistake when implemented into the common law.

See also: Caveat, Lawyer, State, Law, Attorn

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