Competitive Bidding

Competitive bidding, anything done in or about the place where a sale of goods by way of competitive bidding is held, if done in connection with the sale, must be taken to be done during the course of it, whether it is done at the time when any articles are being sold or offered for sale by way of competitive bidding or before or after any such time, Mock Auctions Act, 1961, s. 3(5) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 943, p. 459.