venditioni exponas
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
Definitions from Case Law
From 71 U.S. 237 - Mitchell v. St. Maxent's Lessee · 1866Most cited · 42 citing opinions
That writ was regarded as a completion of the previous execution, by which the property had been appropriated, and not as an original or independent proceeding.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A writ in the nature of an alias writ of execution, directing the completion of an execution on realty already begun.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat. You expose to sale. This is the name of a writ of execution, requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied upon goods under a fieri facias, but returned that they remained unsold for want of buyers ; and in some jurisdictions it is issued to cause a sale to be made of lands, seized under a former writ, after they have been condemned or passed upon by an inquisition. Frequently abbreviated to "vend, ess." See Beebe v. U. S., 161 U. S. 104, 16 Sup. Ot. 532, 40 L. Ed. 633; Borden v. Tillman, 39 Tex. 273; Ritchie v. Higginbotham, 26 Kan. 648
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
1. 1. Expose yod to sale; a judicial writ commanding a sheriff to sell goods taken under an execution.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
;. (That you expose to sale.) A writ judicial commanding a sheriff to sell goods taken on execution.