An auction sale is a sale by which property is offered for sale to several persons through the intermediary of an auctioneer, and declared sold to the last and highest bidder, where the seller has expressed no contrary intention.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 1837
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The seller himself may be auctioneer.