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Forced sale   /fɔrst seɪl/   Listen
Forced sale

noun
1.
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, judicial sale, sheriff's sale.






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"Forced sale" Quotes from Famous Books



... has nothing to sell at forced sale which will bring anything, but the household servants here; these maids in the family are marketable immediately. You would not like ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... sense of obligation toward my creditors, who, in case of accident to me, by the forced sale of my property, may be in some degree sufferers. I did not think myself at liberty, as a man of probity, lightly to ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... nothing against Duvall. He was one of Bucks' dupes, and he is paying the price. The property is to be sold at a forced sale, and it ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde

... farmer, from the credit side of his available resources. This alarming shrinkage, has in the aggregate, amounted to many millions, yes, billions of dollars! The financial distress which has followed, has correspondingly affected many other industries. It has been the real cause of the forced sale of many fine farms at such ruinously low prices, as to sacrifice at one blow, the savings of a life-time. Each sale of this character serves to depress the market value of all lands in that particular locality. In this way ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... "By a forced sale of water rights to the North Pinto Gold Mining Company, dissolved, in which Mr. Roderick Hoff was vice-president and silent partner," replied Average Jones with an amiable smile, as he ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams



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