sale per aversionem

In the civil law, a sale where the goods are taken in bulk, or not by weight or measure, and for a single price, or where a piece of land is sold for a gross sum, to be paid for the whole premises, and not at a fixed price by the acre or foot. A sale per aversionem is sale of either distinct or separate immovable, such as a field enclosed or island in a river, or an immovable property sold by certain bounds or limits. Cornish v. Kinder Canal Co., La.App., 267 So.2d 625, 629. In such a sale, purchaser acquires property located within boundaries designated in sales agreement, irrespective of stated acreage in agreement; description of property by boundaries thus prevails over description referring to specific quantity or measurement. Deshotel v. Lachney, La.App. 3 Cir., 465 So.2d 974, 977