redhibition
redhibition (red-[h]i-bish-[schwa]n), n. Civil law. The voidance of a sale as the 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. La. Civ. Code art. 2531. [Cases: Sales 119. C.J.S. Sales §§ 194, 199–202.] — redhibitory (red-hib-[schwa]-tor-ee), adj.