Opening Biddings
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Ordering a resale. on notice of an offer of a sufiicient advance on the price obtained, open the biddings, i. e., order a resale; but this will not generally be done after the confirmation of the certificate of the highest bidder. So, by analogy, a resale has been ordered of an estate sold under bankruptcy.
Sugd. Vend. 90; 22 Barb. (N. Y.) 167; 8 Md. 322; 9 Md. 228; 13 Grat. (Va.) 639; 4 Wis. 242; 31 Miss. 514.