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Definition of Auctioneers
1. auctioneer [n] - See also: auctioneer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auctioneers
Literary usage of Auctioneers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1885)
"A. Henn Collins, QC, and Englis/t Harrison, for Richardson <fe Roper, the
auctioneers, contended that the objection could not be raised by the person who ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"This rule is fully applicable to attorneys at law.1 (13) auctioneers. ... Jr.
289, auctioneers, agents to sell, and persons of that description are ..."
3. A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina, Arranged Under Distinct Heads in by North Carolina, John Haywood (1819)
"Said auctioneers shall yearly, ... oí*" said auctioneers" shall fail or r> fuse
to account for and pay the proceeds of any sale I them made, ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"auctioneers.—As a police regulation, the various States, and many of the municipal
corporations in the United States, require auctioneers to be licensed.3 4 ..."
5. The Powers, Duties, and Liabilities of Town and Parish Officers in by William Augustus Herrick, Massachusetts (1870)
"auctioneers to be licensed by selectmen, &c., fur one year. ... auctioneers to
give hond. 4. auctioneers to keep an account of sales. 6. ..."
6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"auctioneers.—The characteristic feature of auction sales is the soliciting of
... The law of New York confines auctioneers to one place of business, ..."
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