WordNet
n. a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy and unpaid obligation [syn: sheriff's sale, execution sale, judicial sale]
Wikipedia
A forced sale is an action taken in a civil court forcing the owners of a piece of real property to sell their property and to divide the profits. A forced sale is generally the result of a petition to partition action.
Usage examples of "forced sale".
He rocked in silence, shaking his head over paradises lost: the brick house had been sheriffed out at a forced sale.
But the thought of a forced sale of the Tribune was like a knife at her throat, a most disagreeable sensation.
He had not thought to recover more than ten trillion in a forced sale.
And then his next two potato harvests were decimated by blight, resulting in the forced sale of his farm.
I added a note about this to the accounts suggesting an additional depreciation of twenty-five per cent on the aircraft in the case of a forced sale, and then I got into the Proctor and went over to Baraka.
The crystal he said had come into his possession with other oddments at the forced sale of another curiosity dealer's effects, and not knowing what its value might be, he had ticketed it at ten shillings.
The forced sale of Serendipity was a bandit act for which the Shenna demanded compensation.