REDHIBITION

redhibition (red-[h]i-bish-<<schwa>>n), n. Civil law. The voidance of a sale as the result of

an action brought on account of some defect in a thing sold, on grounds that the defect renders the

thing either useless or so imperfect that the buyer would not have originally purchased it. La. Civ.

Code art. 2531. [Cases: Sales 119. C.J.S. Sales §§ 194, 199–202.] — redhibitory

(red-hib-<<schwa>>-tor-ee), adj. [Blacks Law 8^th]