Liability for material defects

The seller’s duty to answer for defects in the thing (section 434 BGB). When an old house is sold it is often excluded — but the exclusion never reaches known defects deliberately concealed (section 444 BGB).

German: Sachmängelhaftung

This explanation is for orientation; German law applies. No legal advice in individual cases.

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