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tax sale
noun
- the sale of real property, as land, usually at auction by a public authority, in order to pay delinquent taxes assessed upon its owner.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tax sale1
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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Example Sentences
You will probably not get rich this way, but you also won't get evicted in a tax sale or a bankruptcy.
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A tax sale deed was conclusive evidence of legal sale, and was not a subject for the decision of a court.
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The author of the tax sale law was Pierce Burton, a Radical editor.
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No doubt the farm was to be put up at tax sale and Wiggett had come out to see whether it was worth bidding in.
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I want to see what is to be done at the tax-sale and what sort of a title is to be given.
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