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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 579 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAVEAT (Latin for " let him beware," from cavere)  , in See also:law, a See also:notice given by the party interested (caveator) to the proper officer of a See also:court of See also:justice to prevent the taking of a certain step without warning . It is entered in connexion with dealings in See also:land registered in the land registry, with the See also:grant of See also:marriage licences, to prevent the issuing of a lunacy See also:commission, to stay the See also:probate of a will, letters of See also:administration, &c . See also:Caveat is also a See also:term used in See also:United States patent law (see See also:PATENTS) . Caveat emptor (" let the buyer beware ") is a See also:maxim which implies that the responsibility for making a See also:bad bargain over a See also:purchase rests On the purchaser . In an See also:ordinary See also:contract for the See also:sale of goods, there is no implied See also:warranty or See also:condition as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of the goods supplied, with certain exceptions, and, therefore, the buyer takes at his own See also:risk . The maxim does not apply (a) where the buyer, expressly or by implication, makes known to the seller the particular purpose for which the goods are required, so as to show that the buyer relies on the seller's skill or See also:judgment, and that the goods are of a description which it is in the course of the seller's business to See also:supply; (b) where goods are bought by description from a seller who deals in goods of that description, for there is an implied condition that the goods are of merchantable quality, though if the buyer has actually examined the goods, there is no implied condition as regards defects which the examination ought to have revealed; (c) where the usage of See also:trade annexes an implied warranty or condition to the goods as to their quality or fitness for a particular purpose . The maxim of caveat emptor is said to owe its origin to the fact that in See also:early times sales of goods took See also:place principally in See also:market overt . (See further SALE OF GOODS.) ' CAVEDONE, JACOPO (1577-166o), See also:Italian painter, See also:born at Sassuolo in the Modenese, was educated in the school of the See also:Caracci, and under them painted in the churches of See also:Bologna . His' See also:principal See also:works are the " See also:Adoration of the Magi," the " Four Doctors," and the ` Last Supper "; and more especially the " Virgin and See also:Child in See also:Glory," with See also:San Petronio and other See also:saints, painted in 1614, and now in the Bolognese See also:Academy . Cavedone became an assistant to Guido Reni in See also:Rome; his See also:art was generally of a subdued undemonstrative See also:character, with See also:rich Titianesque colouring . In his declining years his energies See also:broke down after his wife had been accused of See also:witchcraft, and after the See also:death of a cherished son . He died in extreme poverty, in a See also:stable at Bologna .

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