Auctioneer
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
<A person authorized or licensed by luw to sell lunds or goods of other persons at public auction; one who sells at auction. Awuelioncers differ from brokers, infthat the latter may both buy and sell, whereas auctionéers can only sell; also brokers may seil by private contract only, and auctioneers by public auction only, Auctioneers can only sell goods for ready money, but factors may sell upon credit. In the civil law. A grantor or vendor of any kind.
In old French law
A plaintiif.
Kelham.