conditional sale


noun
  1. a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.

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How to use conditional sale in a sentence

  • The term, conditional sale, has come to have a technical meaning.

  • The purpose of the seller in making a conditional sale is to retain security for the price which the buyer cannot pay all at once.

    Commercial Law | Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill
  • Why, it may be asked, does a buyer enter into a conditional sale, which is rather a poor bargain as far as he is concerned?

    Commercial Law | Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill
  • The consignment is like the conditional sale in this respect, that the person who has possession of the goods has not the title.

    Commercial Law | Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill