Judicial sale
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A judicial sale is one made under the process of a court having competent authority to order it, by an officer duly appointed and commissioned to sell, as distinguished from a sale by an owner in virtue of his right of property.
Williamson v. Berry, 8 How. 547, 12 L. Ed. 1170; Terry v. Co.le, 80 Va. 701; Black v. Caldwell (C. C.) 83 Fed. 880 ; Woodward v. Dillworth, 75 Fed. 415 , 21 C. C. A. 417.