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sale in gross

sale in gross

9.9
An agreement to transfer land as one piece without promising the exact size
  • noun
  • UK
translation icon : venta en bloque
  • Under a sale in gross, the exact number of acres is not guaranteed to the purchaser.

Examples

  • The developer completed a sale in gross for the entire property.

  • They agreed to a sale in gross rather than measuring each boundary for accuracy.

  • The farm was transferred by a sale in gross, so the buyer could not claim for minor acreage discrepancies.

  • Have you ever participated in a sale in gross?

  • The farm was transferred by a sale in gross, so the buyer could not claim for minor acreage discrepancies.

  • They agreed to a sale in gross rather than measuring each boundary for accuracy.

  • Under a sale in gross, the exact number of acres is not guaranteed to the purchaser.

Synonyms

sale
vssale in gross
∞ 1.0

An act of giving something to someone for money

focuses specifically on whole land transfers without guaranteeing exact acreage
contract of hazard
vssale in gross
  • Archaic
9.9

Sale of a piece of land as one lot without a promised size

has the same meaning but uses a different legal label

Surface Forms

sale in gross singular
sales in gross plural

Morphology

sale + in + gross

A learner who knows 'sale' and that 'gross' can mean 'whole' or 'total' can plausibly infer this refers to selling the property as a whole, so part of the meaning is recoverable. However, the precise legal nuance ('without guarantee of the exact acreage') and the idiomatic legal collocation 'in gross' are specialized and not fully predictable from the words alone, so a B1 learner would not get the full sense without exposure.

Etymology

The phrase sale in gross comes from the idea of selling land all at once. Here sale means the sale and gross means 'as a whole', not measured piece by piece, so the buyer cannot claim for small differences in the land's 'exact size'.