vendee

His position is thus that of a surety who is liable to his principal should the vendee make default.

As a rule, they were paid only by the vendee, and to the market clerk, whose record of the payment was an attestation to the genuineness of the purchase.

The vendee or purchaser would sue to recover for a broken covenant.

Now I suppose you wouldn’t have thought that I was a vendee, would you?”

A valuable privilege under which an unpaid consigner or broker may stop or countermand his goods upon their passage to the consignee on the insolvency of the vendee.