As is types of damage. See, for instance, the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 and Sale of Goods Act 1979. As is As is is a legal term used to disclaim some implied warranties for an item being sold. Certain types of implied warranties must be specifically disclaimed, such as the implied warranty of title. "As is" denotes that the seller is selling, and the buyer is buying an item in whatever condition it presently exists, and that the buyer is accepting the item "with all faults", whether or not immediately apparent. This is the classic "buyer beware" situation, where
Beware the Cat had originally intended. An abridged and rewritten version in modern English by David Haden, was published in his "Tales of Lovecraftian Cats" (2010) along with Haden's adaptations of public domain horror stories by other authors. Beware the Cat Beware the Cat (1561) is a short English novel (or is that "novella"?) written by the printer's assistant and poet William Baldwin (sometimes called Gulielmus Baldwin), in early 1553. It is notable as the first horror fiction text longer than a short story and has also been claimed by some academics as the first novel ever published in English of any kind.