Lat. In the civil law. By turning away. A term applied to that klnd of sale where the goods are tak-en in bulk, and not by weight or measure, and for a single price; or where a piece of land is sold as contalnlng in gross, by es-timation, a certain number of acres. Poth. Cont Sale, nn. 256, 309. So called because the bpyer acts without partlcular exumina-tion or dlscrlmlnatlon, turning hls face, as it were, away. Calvin
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
