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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.