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  • VENDIBLE
    Fit or suitable to be sold; capable of transfer by sale; merchantable.
  • VENDITAE
    In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and public fairs. Spelman.
  • VENDITIO
    Lat In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called "emptio vendition Inst 3, 24. Calvin.
  • VENDITION
    Sale; the act of selling.
  • VENDITIONI EXPONAS
    Lat. Yon expose to sale. This is the name of a writ of execution* requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied npon goods under a fieri facias, but returned that they remained unsold for want of buyers ; and in some jurisdictions it More...
  • VENDITOR
    Lat A seller; a vendor. Inst 3, 24; Bract fol. 41. —Venditor regis. In old English law. The king's seller or salesman; the person who ex-posed to sale those goods and chattels which were seized or distrained to answer any debt due to the king. Cowell.
  • VENDITRIX
    Lat A female vendor. Cod. 4, 51, 3.
  • VENDOR
    The person who transfers property by sale, particularly real estate, "seller" being more commonly used for one who sells personalty. He Is the vendor who negotiates the sale, and becomes the recipient of the considera-tion, though the title comes to the vendee from another source, and not from the ven¬dor. More...
  • VENDUE
    A sale; generally a sale at public auction; and more particularly a sale so made under authority of law, as by a constable, sheriff, tax collector, administrator, etc.
  • VENDUE MASTER
    An auctioneer.
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