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Definition of Forced sale
1. Noun. A sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation.
Generic synonyms: Sale, Sales Agreement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forced Sale
Literary usage of Forced sale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"The state argued nevertheless that there was in fact no tax exemption but that
the provision for it was but an additional prohibition against a forced sale* ..."
2. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1919)
"If bondholders combine to purchase at a forced sale, and there is no fraud or
bad faith, a bondholder invited to join in the combination to purchase, ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"forced sale. Const Kan. art 15, § 9, providing that a homestead shall be exempt
from forced sale under any process of law, should be construed to mean sales ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1906)
"No valid forced sale can be made as affecting the homestead right until ...
HOMESTEAD, Estoppel Arising from Claiming the Proceeds of a forced sale of. ..."
5. Institutes of American Law by John Bouvier (1854)
"A forced sale is one made without the consent of the owner of the property by
... By forced sale, in another sense, is understood a sale at auction to the ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"[3] The provision of the Constitution as to exemptions from forced sale is not
self executing. Speidel v. Schlosser, 13 W. Va. 686; Holt v. ..."
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