In the civil law. An offering for sale to the highest bidder, or to him who will give most for a thing. An act by which co-heirs or other co-proprietors of a thing in common and undivided between them put it to bid between them, to be ad-judged and to belong to the highest snd last bidder, upon conditlon that he pay to each of hls co-proprietors a part in the price equal to the undlvlded part which each of the said co-proprietors had in the estate licited, before the adjudication. Poth. Cont. Sale, nn. 516, 638