NOUN
- a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation
How To Use forced sale In A Sentence
- Brussels warned that without the forced sales, the enlarged company would be able to drive up the price of cans and other packaging. Times, Sunday Times
- It lasted less than half a season before the first of a flood of forced sales. Times, Sunday Times
- In the case of a crofting community, for instance, all salmon fishing that borders the in-bye and grazing land can be bought by the crofters in an enforced sale.
- It came in the form of stay laws, restrictions upon forced sales, and freedom from attachment for debt for certain classes of property.
- And with the club no nearer a takeover, the chances of the Americans finding a solution which avoids a messy forced sale is unlikely. The Sun
- The only alternative will be a forced sale - exactly what the proposed cap on care in the home costs is seeking to avoid. Times, Sunday Times
- The new Nazi government decreed a forced sale, for a pittance, of the main Alt Aussee house.
- They are there for the benefit of other investors because the last thing anyone wants is a forced sale of properties at knock-down valuations. Times, Sunday Times