Definition of Biddings

1. bidding [n] - See also: bidding

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biddings

biddability
biddable
biddably
bidded
bidden
bidder
bidders
biddest
biddeth
biddi-biddi
biddies
bidding
bidding contest
bidding price
bidding prices
biddings (current term)
biddy
bide
bide one's time
bideauxite
bided
bidegree
bident
bidental
bidentals
bidentate
bidents
bider
biders
bides

Literary usage of Biddings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chitty's Index to All the Reported Cases Decided in the Several Courts of by Edward Chitty (1888)
"Where applications to open biddings are frivolous or litigious, and grounded only on ... 313. biddings, resting wholly on circumstances of the ease. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery: With an Appendix of by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour (1843)
"In England it is almost a matter of course to open the biddings on a master's sale, ... And the mere advance of price is sufficient to open the biddings; ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"Mr. Ainge for the purchaser contended, that the practice is not to open biddings, after the Report is confirmed, unless there are special circumstances ..."

4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"General rule not to open biddings after confirmation of the report, upon negligence, ... Increase of price offered is not alone a reason to open biddings ..."

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