Is a vendor's concealment of defects that would otherwise be patent invalid?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sahamis v. Lenz, 2014 BCSC 2305 (CanLII):
Active concealment by a vendor of defects that would otherwise be patent is treated as fraudulent, and the contract is voidable by the purchaser if he has been deceived by it: Hamel v. Racioppi (1993), 32 R.P.R. (2d) 302 (O.N.C.J.).
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