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licitation

price, from licere to be for sale] : the act of offering for sale or bidding at an auction ;specif in the civil law of Louisiana : a mode of partitioning property held in common by sale

Finder of goods

21 LJ QB 75, where a bundle of bank notes so found was recovered. The buyer at an auction of a bureau with a secret drawer in it containing money is in law in the position of

Innkeeper

38), that in addition to his right of lien, the innkeeper may, after six weeks sell by public auction all goods (advertised at least one month beforehand), horses, etc., left with him by a person leaving the

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Lay system

Lay system, means a system in which a fishing vessel's catch is sold at auction, and then the proceeds are provided first to the provider of supplies and then to the master and

Licence

acts, as to marry without publication of banns, or to carry on various trades, as that of an auctioneer, hawker, or pedlar. As to licences for the sale of intoxicating liquors by retail, see INTOXICATING LIQUORS. As

Mortgage

any by which the transfer is effected is called a mortgage deed. Earnest money deposits of bidders at auction sale of forest produce is not mortgage and therefore not liable to stamp duty, Board of Revenue v.

Open market

to a limited class only, such as the members of the family. The market is not necessarily an auction-sale. The s. means such amount as the land might be expected to realize if offered under conditions enabling

Opening biddings

estate was sold, and put up the estate for sale again. But the Sale of (English) Land by Auction Act, 1867, has, by s. 7, abolished this inconvenient practice (under which biddings were opened even more than

Order

order allowing the application certainly deprives the purchaser of rights accrued to him as a result of the auction-sale, Redhey Shyam v. Shyam Behari Singh, (1970) 2 SCC 405: AIR 1971 SC 2337. The word 'order' which

Reserve Price

Reserve Price, Indicates the object behind fixing the reserve price viz. to limit the authority of the auctioneer. In the present case, the board resolution is meant to guide the officers of the second respondent. The

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