What is a “latent defect” in a motor vehicle?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jacob v. Pool, 2011 ABPC 321 (CanLII):
In Swayze v. Robertson (2001) 39 R.P.R. (3d) 114 at para. 27: “A ‘latent defect’ … is in effect some fault in the structure that is not readily apparent to an ordinary purchaser during a routine inspection.”
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