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Bargain and sale

Bargain and sale, A contract for the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of goods sold without delivery, the vendor of land being held originally to possess or be seised of the property to the use of the purchaser. In the case of goods the Common Law rule was and is that the property may be transferred by the contract if the parties so intend [see Ogg v. Shuter, (1875) LR 10 CP at p.162; and (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 20]. In the case of land a similar result was effected by the Statute of Uses (27 Hen. 8, c. 101), which attached the property to the use and turned it into a legal estate. No formalities were required for a bargain and sale of lands until 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, required that bargains and sales of any estate of inheritance must be by deed enrolled within six months in the records of one of the King's Courts at Westminster. The devise of a lease and release (...


Average gross sale

Average gross sale, means the amount of total sales divided by the number of sales transactions in a specific period, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1337....


Absolute sale

Absolute sale, means a sale in which possession and title to the property pass to the buyer immediately upon the completion of the bargain, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1337....


Act of sale

Act of sale, means an official record of a sale of property, esp., a document drawn up by a notary, signed by the parties, and attested by witnesses, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 35....


On sale bar

On sale bar, means a statutory bar prohibiting patent eligibility if an invention was sold or offered for sale more than one year before the filing of a patent application, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1117....


Sale of business doctrine

Sale of business doctrine, means the outmoded rule holding that the transfer of stock incident to the sale of a business does not constitute a transfer of securities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1339....


Sale agreement

Sale agreement, means a contract in which owner-ship of property is presently transferred, or will be transferred in the future, from a seller to a buyer for a fixed sum, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1340....


sale

sale 1 a : the transfer of title to property from one party to another for a price ;also : the contract of such a transaction see also short compare barter, donation, exchange, gift absolute sale : a sale that takes place without conditions and with title simply passing to the buyer upon payment of the price compare conditional sale in this entry bulk sale : a sale not in the ordinary course of the seller's business of more than half of the seller's inventory called also bulk transfer NOTE: Article 6 of the Uniform Commercial Code governs bulk sales. Under section 6-102(c), in order for a sale to be considered a bulk sale, the buyer (or an auctioneer or liquidator if the sale is an auction) must have been given notice or been able upon reasonable inquiry to have had notice that the seller will not afterward continue to operate the same or a similar kind of business. cash sale : a sale in which payment must be made in cash NOTE: Under U.C.C. section 2-310, payment must be made ...


Sale price

Sale price, 'Sale Price' means the amount payable to a dealer as consideration for the sale of any goods, less any sum allowed as cash discount according to the practice normally prevailing in the trade, but inclusive of any sum charged for anything done by the dealer in respect of the goods at the time of or before the delivery thereof other than the cost of freight or delivery of the cost of installation in case where such cost is separately charged and the expression 'purchase price' shall be construed accordingly, Shree Gopal Industries Ltd. v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1971 SC 2054: (1971) 2 SCC 532.(ii) Under s. 4 of the Madhya Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1958 the liability to pay tax is that of the dealer. The purchaser has no liability to pay tax. There is no provision in the Act from which it can be gathered that the Act imposes any liability on the purchaser to pay the tax imposed on the dealer. If the dealer passes on his tax burden to his purchasers he can only do it by au...


Food and sale

Food and sale, 'Food' is defined by S. 2(v) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 as meaning 'any article used as food or drink for human consumption other than drugs and water and includes:(a) any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of human food, and(b) any flavouring matter or condiments. 'Sale' is defined by S. 2(xiii) as follows: 'Sale' with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the sale of any article of food, whether for cash or on credit or by way of exchange and whether by wholesale or retail, for human consumption or use, or for analysis, and includes an agreement for sale, an offer for sale, the exposing for sale or having in possession for sale of any such article, and includes also an attempt to sell any such article; According to the definition of 'food' any used as food or drink for human consumption and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of hu...


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