caveat emptor
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Caveat emptor · caveat ctnptor
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Law in a Free State
The legal maxim ('let the buyer beware') posed as an alternative to State inspection and punishment of adulteration.
, should be untrammelled by any other law than the maxim caveat emptor, or whether the State should analyse these commodities, and punish adulterators;
Caveat emptor is the excellent maxim of law which applies in this country to buying and selling.
The local magistrate declined to convict, on the ground that the substance sold was undoubtedly tincture of opium, that the strength was not warranted, and that the rule caveat emptor applied;
Institutes of Roman Law
The English-law maxim placing the risk of a good's quality on the buyer absent express warranty.
English law implies a condition that the seller of goods has a right to sell and a warranty that the buyer shall have quiet enjoyment, but except in certain circumstances refuses to assume an implied warranty of the goods or soundness of the articles sold, applying the maxim caveat emptor.