Dumb Bidding
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
contracts. In gales at auction, when the amount which the owner of the thing sold is willing to take for the article, is written and placed by the owner under a candlestick or other thing, and it called dumb bidding.
Babingt. on Auct. 44.