Crossword clues for warranties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warranty \War"rant*y\, n.; pl. Warranties. [OF. warantie, F. garantie. See Warrant, n., and cf. Guaranty.]
(Anc. Law) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
--Kent.(Modern Law) An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.
--Chitty. Bouvier.(Insurance Law) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
--Bouvier.-
Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant. [R.]
--Shak.If they disobey precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty . . . to disobey likewise.
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Security; warrant; guaranty.
The stamp was a warranty of the public.
--Locke.Syn: See Guarantee.
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Usage examples of "warranties".
Furthermore, this statement, as Lord Coke meant it, is perfectly consistent with the other and more important distinction between warranties and rights in the nature of easements or covenants creating such rights.
Covenants which started from the analogy of warranties, and others to which was applied the language and reasoning of easements, have been confounded together under the title of [401] covenants running with the land.
Conversely as to the benefit of warranties made to a deceased grantee, his heir was the only person interested to enforce such warranties, because the land descended to him.
If that had been the notion, there would have been a contract directly binding the first grantor to the assign, as soon as the land was sold, and thus there would have been two warranties arising from the same clause,--one to the first grantee, a second to the assign.
If Lord Coke had [400] meant to distinguish between warranties and all covenants which in our loose modern sense are said to run with the land, this statement would be less satisfactory than the preceding.
And on principle it is only necessary between them in those cases--such as warranties, and probably covenants for title--where, the covenants being regarded wholly from the side of contract, the benefit goes by way of succession, and not with the land.
The illegal product is inferior to the legal copy (it comes with no literature, warranties or support).