 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1524 pages
...•Headnotes by Justice Clifford, who delivered the opinion. NOTE. — Bids at auction sale, «citen binding. Every bidding Is nothing more than an offer on one side which Is not binding on either side until It Is assented to, and that assent Is signified on tli« part of the seller by knocking... | |
 | Law - 1999 - 1046 pages
...not done here till the defendant had retracted. An auction is not unaptly called locus panitentice. Every bidding is nothing more than an offer on one side, which is not binding on either side till it is assented to. But, according to what is now contended for, one party would be... | |
 | 890 pages
...not done here till the defendant had retracted. An auction is not unaptly called locus pcenitentice. Every bidding is nothing more than an offer on one side, which is not binding on either side till it is assented to. But according to what is now contended for, one party would be... | |
 | Courtney Stanhope Kenny - Contracts - 1922 - 544 pages
...not done here till the defendant had retracted. An auction is not unaptly called locus paenitetUice. Every bidding is nothing more than an offer on one side, which is not binding on either side till it is assented to. But according to what is now contended for, one party would be... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 780 pages
...sale complete. Bateman, Auctions (5th ed.), 104; Squibbs, Auctioneers, 43 ; 2 Livermore, Agency, 333. Every bidding is nothing more than an offer on one side, which is not binding on either side till it is assented to. There is no showing that the alleged sale wtfs ever assented to... | |
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Every bidding is nothing more than an offer on one side, which is not binding on either side till it is assented to. But according to what is now contended for, one party would be bound by the offer, and the other not, which can never be allowed. 
