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sheriff's sale

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Noun1.sheriff's salesheriff's sale - a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation
execution sale, forced sale, judicial sale
sales agreement, sale - an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer); "the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office"
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He's been to Woodfield this afternoon, attending a sheriff's sale there.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
M'Kane, because of his attempting to take possession of seven barrels of whiskey, the property of M'Kane, which had been knocked off to M'Allister at a sheriff's sale at one dollar per barrel.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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