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Suppose again that an honest man is offering a1
house for sale on account of certain undesirable
features of which he himself is aware but which
nobody else knows; suppose it is unsanitary, but
has the reputation of being healthful; suppose it is
not generally known that vermin are to be found in
all the bedrooms; suppose, finally, that it is built of
unsound timber and likely to collapse, but that no
one knows about it except the owner; if the vendor
does not tell the purchaser these facts but sells him
the house for far more than he could reasonably
have expected to get for it, I ask whether his transaction is unjust or dishonourable.
1 A vendor's duty.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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