Does caveat emptor apply in cases of fraud?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Nixon v. MacIver, 2014 BCSC 533 (CanLII):
As was noted in Cardwell, caveat emptor does not apply in cases of fraud. In Hanslo v. Barry, 2011 BCSC 1624, Mr. Justice Joyce reviewed authorities that dealt with the concept of fraud and said, at para. 72:
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