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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



... day, Zeb Sawyer was to meet McElwin at the bank. The hour was tolled off by a grim old clock standing high in a corner, a rare old time piece with a history, or at least a past, of interest to McElwin, for it had been bought at the forced sale of fixtures belonging to a defunct bank. It struck with solemn self-importance, as if proclaiming the hour to foreclose a mortgage; and though not given to this sort of reflective speculation, McElwin must have ...
— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read



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