bargain

To sell bargains, is a vulgar phrase.

To strike a bargain, is to ratify an agreement, originally by striking, or shaking hands. The Latin ferire foedus, may represent a like ceremony,unless it refers to the practice of killing a victim, at the solemn ratification of oaths.

Bargain and sale, in law, a species of conveyance, by which the bargainer contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seised to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; that is, the

bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession.

B'ARGAIN, v.i. To make a contract or conclusive agreement, for the

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transfer of property; often with for before the thing purchased; as, to bargain for a house. A bargained with B for his farm.

B'ARGAIN, v.t. To sell; to transfer for a consideration; as, A bargained away his farm; a popular use of the word.