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Dum bidding, in sales at auctions, when the amount which the owner of the thing sold was willing to take for the article was written, and placed by the owner under a candlestick or other things, and it was agreed that no bidding should avail unless equal to that amount....
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bid bid bid·ding vt : to offer (a price) for payment or acceptance vi : to make a bid : state what one will pay or take in payment [a contractor bidding for a job] bid·der n n 1 : the act of one who bids 2 a : a statement of what one will pay for something b : a statement of what one (as a contractor) will charge for something (as supplies or labor) 3 : an opportunity to bid ...
Dum casta vixerit
Dum casta vixerit (so long as she shall live chaste). In deeds of separation of husband and wife, it is not uncommonly provided that the allowance thereby insured by the husband to the wife shall continue only so long as she shall live a chaste life. This proviso is termed the 'dum casta clause.' As to the insertion of such a clause when the Court, in decreeing a dissolution of marriage, orders the husband to make an allowance to the wife, see Squire v. Squire, 1905, P. 4....
Opening biddings
Opening biddings. Before 1867, where estates were sold, under the decree of a Court of Equity, the Court considered itself to have a greater power over the contract than if the contract were made between party and party; and as the aim of the Court was to obtain as great a price as possible for the estate, it would open the biddings after the 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 once), with an exception for cases of fraud or improper management of a sale, in which upon the application of any person interested in the land, 'the Court may either open the biddings, holding such bidder bound by his bidding, or discharge him from being the purchaser, and order the land to be resold', see Delves v. Delves, (1875) LR 20 Eq 77....
Bid
Bid, means to offer (a price) for payment or acceptance; to make a bid: state what one will pay or take in payment (a contractor bidding for a job), Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 40....
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....
Dum bene se gesserit
Dum bene se gesserit. See QUAMDIU SE BENE GESSERIT...
Dum fuit in prisona
Dum fuit in prisona (while he was in prison), an abolished writ of entry to restore a man to lands which he had aliened under duress of imprisonment, 2 Inst. 482....
Dum fuit infra 'tatem
Dum fuit infra 'tatem (while he was within age), an abolished writ whereby one who had made a feoffment of his lands while an infant might, when he came of full age, recover them. Within age, he might enter into the land and take it back again, and by his entry he was remitted to his ancestor's right, Fitz. N.B. 192....
Dum non fuit compos mentis
Dum non fuit compos mentis (while he was not of sound mind), an abolished writ that lay, when a man not of sound mind had aliened any lands or tenements, to recover them from the alienee, Fitz. N.B. 499...
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