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VENDITIONI EXPONAS

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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 is issued to cause a sale to be made of lands, seized under a former writ, after they have been condemned or passed upon by … [Read more...] about VENDITIONI EXPONAS

VENDOR

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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 vendor. Rutland v. Briefer, 53 Miss. 685. Vendor and Purchaser's Act. The act of … [Read more...] about VENDOR