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Puffer

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A person employed by the owner of property which is seld at auction to attend the sale and run up the prico by making spurious bids.

See Peck v. List, 23 W. Va. 375, 48 Arn. Rep. 398; McMillan v. Harris, 110 Ga. 72, 35 S. E. 334, 48 In R. A. 345, 78 Am. St Rep. 93.