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Definition :

Redhibition [fr. redhibitio, Lat.], an action allowed to a buyer by which to annul the sale of some movable, and to oblige the seller to take it back again upon the buyer finding it damaged, or that there was some deceit, Civ. Law.; Sand. Just.

Means the voidance of a sale as a 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, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1282