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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



... excellent women will make for themselves a united income of one hundred and twenty thousand francs a year out of your misfortunes and forced sale of property, added to the revenue of some thirty-odd thousand on the Grand-livre which these ...
— The Marriage Contract • Honore de Balzac

... 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



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