Subduct
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it. SUBHASTARE (Lat.) In the civil law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hastn, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calv. Lex. SUBHASTATIO (Lat.) In the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the place of sale as a public sign of it. Calv. Lex. The Roman custom of setting up a spear at an auction seems to have been derived from the circumstance that at first only those things