DCHP-3

criée sale

[< F criée auction + E sale]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sale ordered by a court; auction sale.

Quotations

1812
On Saturday the Eighteenth of April, next, at Quebec aforesaid, in the said Court House, Court Sitting, at ten o'clock in the morning, will be made the third and last Criée sale and Adjudication of the said land.
1817
There will, by order of the Honorable Court of King's Bench . . . be proceeded on the Fourth and last Criee sale and adjudication to the last offerer . . . on Tuesday . . . in the Court House. . . .