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Forced Sale

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In practice

A sale made at the time and in the manner prescribed by law, in virtue of execution issued on a judgment already rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; a sale made under the process of the court, and in the mode prescribed by law.

Sampson v. Williamson, 6 Tex. 110, 55 Am. Dee, 762.

A forced sale is a sale against the consent of the owner. The term should not be deemed to embrace a sale under a power in a mortgage.

Patterson v. Taylor, 15 Fla. 336.