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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Word of the Week


Lemon Law


A statute that entitles the purchaser of a car that turns out to have substantial defects to return it for a refund or replacement.


For the origin of this curious term, check out this post on the Lemon Justice site. Apparently, the use of "lemon" to describe sub-standard products goes back to the early 1900's. Read more, here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haha. so word of these week was lemon?