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Definition of Emptor
1. Noun. A person who buys.
Generic synonyms: Client, Customer
Specialized synonyms: Customer Agent, Home Buyer, Orderer
Derivative terms: Buy, Purchase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emptor
Literary usage of Emptor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"Caveat emptor. It is the general rule of the common law that no warranty of the
... The maxim applied in such cases is caveat emptor, by which is meant that ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"Caveat emptor—Eule Defined.—" Let the purchaser beware " is a maxim of the common
... There fore caveat emptor may be defined as a rule of the common law, ..."
3. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"... and not alter ipfe, and therefore if the immediate emptor dies, albeit his heir
... be it in fee-fimple, fee-tail, or for life, he is an emptor fir ..."
4. A Treatise on the American Law of Guardianship of Minors and Persons of by John Gabriel Woerner (1897)
"Caveat emptor. — The guardian, in selling his ward's real estate, can self-evidently
con- Caveat emptor vey such title only as the ward possesses, ..."
5. A Treatise on the American Law of Guardianship of Minors and Persons of by John Gabriel Woerner (1897)
"Caveat emptor.—The guardian, in selling his ward's real estate, ... con- Caveat
emptor vey such title only as the ward possesses, and the rule appies; ..."
6. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1917)
"Rule of caveat emptor.—In general the rule of the common law as developed in
England and in this country is "caveat emptor," let the buyer beware, that is, ..."
7. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1919)
"Rule of Caveat emptor Generally.—Caveat emptor is the general common law rule as
to the sale of chattels and if the article is unsound, to entitle the buyer ..."
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