DCHP-3

sheriff's sale

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sale of property or goods conducted by a sheriff following a court order for seizure and sale to satisfy a judgment.

Quotations

1809
Mutation Fines are . . . due to the Crown on Property acquired at Sheriff's Sales.
1841
The entire concern, which cost £20,000, was disposed of at a Sheriff's sale in December last for £1100.
1883
There will be a sheriff's sale of goods and chattels belonging to the late firm of Hambly & Miller, barbers, etc., on Saturday next.
1966
[Notice] Sheriff's Sale of Lands--Under and by Virtue of an Execution issued out of the Ninth Division Court of the County of York to me directed against the lands and tenements of . . . Plaintiff. . . .