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warrant sale

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warrant sale
n
(Law) Scots law a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts


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The threat of a warrant sale - having your possessions publicly auctioned off while sitting in your own front room - was used to frighten families across Scotland.
Sheridan, 43, jailed for six months in 1992 for denying a poll tax warrant sale, said: "We need to look more closely at who we send to prison and the effect sentences have on causing re-offending.
If he does not pay within 14 days you can then instruct a poinding and a warrant sale or consider an arrestment on his bank account.
 
 
 
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