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Sheriff's sale

noun

A sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation. Synonyms: execution sale, forced sale, judicial sale.

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"Sheriff's sale" Quotes from Famous Books

... whose opinion he knew he had suffered by his treachery towards them in the matter of their farm. She found her husband seated in an old arm-chair, which, having been an heir-loom in the family for many a long year, had, with one or two other things, been purchased in at the sheriff's sale. There was that chair, which had come down to them from three or four generations; an old clock, some smaller matters, and a grey sheep, the pet of a favorite daughter, who had been taken away from them by decline during the preceding autumn. There are objects, ...

— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine • William Carleton

... becoming civility, and enquires, with a polite bow, what he will be served with. He wants nothing that will supply the physical man. He has supped on trouble,—the following, painful as it is, will serve him for breakfast; it meets his eye as he traces down the column:—"SHERIFF'S SALE. ...

— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

Words linked to "Sheriff's sale" : sales agreement, execution sale, sale, judicial sale