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PERICULUM Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

Lat. In the civil law. Peril; danger; hazard; risk. Periculum rei venditoe, nondum tra- dita;, est emptoris. The risk of a tiling sold, and not yet delivered, is the purchaser’s. 2 Kent, Comm. 498, 499.

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