Dumb Bidding
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In sales 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 is agreed that no bidding shall avail unless equal to that, this is called dumb bidding.
Bab. Auct. 44.
DUMMADO (Lat. provided that; so that). A word of limitation in old conveyancing.
10 Coke, 41b; Co. Litt. 235a.
One of the apt words of reserving a rent.
Co. Litt. 47a.
Dummodo solvent talem redditum, provided he shall pay such a rent.
Id. 235a.