s. 10. Execution 401
s. 14, 15. Judgments 585
s. 16. Execution 590
s. 17. Parol agrée-
ments 75, 87, 92
s. 18. Recognizances 595 3. c. 18. Papist Vendors 613
- s. 25, Distribution 594 9. c. 7, s. 4. Churchwardens 501

7. c. 19. Infant Trustees
7. c. 20. Registry 596, 601, 602

GEORGE I.

GEORGE II.

2. & 3. c. 4. Registry

595

5. c. 18.
6. c. 35.)

407, 595,

Registry

596

162

OF

VENDORS AND PURCHASERS

ог

ESTATES.

INTRODUCTION.

MORAL writers insist (a), that a vendor is bound, in foro

conscientiæ, to acquaint a purchaser with the defects of the subject of the contract. Arguments of some force have, however, been advanced in favour of the contrary doctrine; and our law does not entirely coincide with this strict precept of morality (b).

If a person enter into a contract, with full knowledge of all the defects in the estate, the question cannot arise: scientia enim utrinque par pares facit contrahentes (c). So if, at the time of the contract, the vendor himself was not aware of any defect in the estate, it seems, that the purchaser must take the estate with all its faults; and cannot claim any compensation for them,