Warranty

(wor'răn-te.) (Same der iv.) (Law.) A promise or covenant, by which a purchaser may have satisfaction from a seller, if he sells what is not his own, or that for which he has not a sufficient title. W. of real property is obsolete; and, with regard to things personal, no expre warranty is now required that the buyer may have satisfaction if the title of the seller was deficient. The seller is not obliged to answer for the goodne of an article, unle at the time of sale he has warranted it to be good; or unle he has in any way misrepresented it. Every affirmation made by the vendor, at the time of sale in relation to the goods, amounts to a W... [s. 948]