catching bargain

English

Noun

catching bargain (plural catching bargains)

1. (law) A bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price.
   • 1765, Kentucky Court of Appeals, Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Kentucky:

     It seems to me that the contract in the bill mentioned, was free from any suggestion of falsehood or concealment of the truth; that it was a catching bargain by the purchaser

References

• “catching”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.