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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
caveat emptor
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But caveat emptor, once you're home, you're on your own.
▪ It is very much a case of caveat emptor.
▪ My final words would be caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
▪ So caveat emptor viridis: let the green buyer beware.
▪ Soon enough we were back to believing that caveat emptor was the motto of every good shopper.
▪ The caveat emptor doctrine has been mitigated by the implied terms as to quality.
▪ There's a legal term, caveat emptor, which means buyer beware, so when viewing it pays to be suspicious.
▪ When it comes to polling, surveys, and public opinion research, caveat emptor is the rule, not the exception.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caveat emptor

Caveat \Ca"ve*at\, n. [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.]

  1. (Law) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
    --Bouvier.

  2. (U. S. Patent Laws) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

    Note: A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed.

  3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest.

    We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion.
    --Jeffrey.

    Caveat emptor [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
caveat emptor

Latin, literally "let the buyer beware;" see caveat and second element of exempt (adj.).

Wiktionary
caveat emptor

phr. 1 (non-gloss definition: Used as a warning to anyone buying something that there might be unforeseen problems or faults with what is bought.) 2 (context legal Latin) A provision of Roman law which gave the seller of a house the legal right to keep quiet about any defects of the house.

WordNet
caveat emptor

n. a commercial principle that without a warranty the buyer takes upon himself the risk of quality

Wikipedia
Caveat emptor

Caveat emptor is Latin for "Let the buyer beware" (from caveat, "may he beware", a subjunctive form of cavēre, "to beware" + ēmptor, "buyer"). Generally, caveat emptor is the contract law principle that controls the sale of real property after the date of closing, but may also apply to sales of other goods. The phrase caveat emptor and its use as a disclaimer of warranties arise from the fact that buyers typically have less information about the good or service they are purchasing, while the seller has more information. The quality of this situation is known as ' information asymmetry'. Defects in the good or service may be hidden from the buyer, and only known to the seller.

A common way that information asymmetry between seller and buyer has been addressed is through a legally-binding warranty, such as a guarantee of satisfaction. But without such a safeguard in place the ancient rule applies, and the buyer should beware.

Caveat Emptor (album)

Caveat Emptor is the album by the American synthpop band Red Flag. It was released in 1998 by their own label, Plan B Records.