2. Stipulation: interested dealing.
3. Purchase or the thing purchased.
4. In popular language, final event; upshot.
We must make the best of a bad 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.
, v.t. To sell; to transfer for a consideration; as, A bargained away his farm; a popular use of the word.