- (v.t.) To warrant; to guarantee.
- (n.) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance or affecting the risk, exist or shall exist or have been done or shall be done. These warranties, when express, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
- (n.) Security; warrant; guaranty.
- (n.) An engagement or undertaking, express or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is or shall be, as it is expressly or impliedly declared or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title, but, as to the quality of goods, the rule of every sale is, Caveat emptor.
- (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
- (n.) Justificatory mandate or precept; authority; warrant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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