Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat/230

Paragraph 1- If one tells another he selling this wine cellar for cooking, he says he is selling this wine cellar to you for cooking or he sold a wine cellar without specification, the buyer accepts 10 out of every 100 barrels where the wine is not good and has already begun to change. He does not accept any more than that. In any case where the buyer says he is purchasing it to drink little by little it is as if he said it is for cooking.

Paragraph 2- If one says I am selling a wine cellar for cooking, he says I am selling a wine cellar to you for cooking or he says I am selling barrels of wine to you, the seller must give him wine that is all good and fit for cooking.

Paragraph 3- If the seller says he selling this cellar of wine, he would give the buyer wine that is sold in the store which is average and not bad or good. The same would apply if he said he is selling this barrel of wine.

Paragraph 4- If the seller says he is selling this cellar to you, even if the entire cellar had soured the sale would be valid.

Paragraph 5- If one sells wine to another and the buyer put the wine is his jugs and the wine immediately soured, the seller is not responsible, even if the buyer said he needs the wine for cooking. If it was known that the seller’s wine had soured, the sale was in error if he said he was selling for cooking.

Paragraph 6- If one sold wine, which remained in the seller’s jugs and then soured, and the buyer had said he needs the wine for cooking, or he said he wants to drink little by little and the wine soured, the buyer would return the wine and say here is your wine and your jugs. If the buyer did not say he needs it for cooking or to drink little by little, he cannot return the wine because the seller can say why didn’t you drink it and you should not have waited long enough for it to sour. This is only where the buyer delayed longer than the typical amount a buyer of this kind of wine would wait.

Paragraph 7- If one sells barrels of beer to another and the barrels belong to the seller, and the barrels spoil, within the first three days of the sale the barrels are in the seller’s possession and he must return the money. Following the first three days, they are in the buyer’s possession.

Paragraph 8- If one sold barrels of wine to another in order for the buyer to sell little by little, and a half or a third of the barrels soured, they would go back to the seller. If the buyer modified the barrels’ hole or the market-day arrived and he did not sell, the barrels remain in the buyer’s possession.

Paragraph 9- Similarly, if one contracts to receive barrels of wine from another to bring them to such and such place to sell them, and before the barrels arrived there, the wine went down in value or soured, the barrels are in the seller’s possession because the barrels and wine are both his.

Paragraph 10- If one tells another that he is selling him cooked or spiced wine, he is required to give him wine that will last until Shavuos if the wine will be in the seller’s jugs. If he says he is selling old wine, he must give him wine from the prior year. If he says he is selling aged wine, he must give him wine that is three years old and it must last and not sour until Sukkos. In a place where there is a known custom, everything would be dependent on the custom. Beer does not have the status of wine and any beer that sours within three days of purchase is in the seller’s possession. After three days it is in the buyer’s possession. If the buyer put the beer into his jugs, it immediately enters his possession. If Reuven makes a claim against Shimon that he sold him wine with the presumption that it was good and Shimon says you purchased what you tasted, the seller is in the right. If Reuven says that Shimon subsequently combined with other wine and Reuven denies it, Reuven would swear and be exempt.