A sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation.
1The property had been seized, and was now offered at sheriff's sale!
2I was sole at sheriff's sale for debt to Massa Sparks.
3He's been to Woodfield this afternoon, attending a sheriff's sale there.
4I've bought ten fifty vara lots at sheriff's sale for five thousand dollars.
5Call off the sheriff's sale at the last minute; I'll pay the costs myself.
6Soon after our removal to the village, grandfather's estate was advertised for sheriff's sale.
7The sheriff's sale came off at the advertised date.
8At the sheriff's sale there were no bona fide bidders except the secret agents of Malcolm Neil.
9Conway allowed the Bar L-M to go under the hammer and at the sheriff's sale Conway himself bought it in-
10It fell into the courts with the whole of Monroe's tangled business and finally Zindorf gets it at a sheriff's sale.
11Long, long time ago, she and her husband had been sold at sheriff's sale and separated, and she never had another husband.
12"Fifteen hundred dollars' worth of new marsh at least," said Will, joyously, "and no debt on the farm, no foreclosure, no sheriff's sale!