Caveat emptor by phone, also have a statutory "cooling off" period of fourteen calendar days during which the purchase contract can be cancelled and treated as if not done. Although no longer applied in consumer law, the principle of "caveat emptor" is generally held to apply to transactions between businesses unless it can be shown that the seller had a clear information advantage over the buyer that could not have been removed by carrying out reasonable due diligence. "Caveat venditor" is Latin for "let the seller beware." In the landmark case of "MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co." (1916), New York Court Appeals
The Child Buyer 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. The Child Buyer The Child Buyer is John Hersey's 1960 novel about a project to engineer super-intelligent persons for a project whose aim is never definitely stated. Told entirely in the form of minutes from a State Senate Standing Committee, it relates the story of the appearance and efforts of a mysterious stranger in the small town of Pequot, and the repercussions of his attempt to buy a boy, Barry Rudd. The novel is primarily a satire on the school system, although it also posits questions about intelligence, the validity of intelligence/personality tests, and