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Definition of Puffers
1. puffer [n] - See also: puffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puffers
Literary usage of Puffers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law and Practice Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of ...by Joseph Henry Dart, William Barber, William Robert Sheldon by Joseph Henry Dart, William Barber, William Robert Sheldon (1888)
"... be treated as purchase- money on an actual sale under the power («). Section 5.
As to puffers and reserved biddings. ... puffers. Rule ns to Equity. (5. ..."
2. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1899)
"... interfering with bidding at auction* and governmental lettings; puffers;
fraudulent trade-marks; violating policy of statutes prescribing business ..."
3. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"puffers have the body covered with spines, and can swell themselves like a balloon
by swallowing air. The Common Puffer lives in the Atlantic Ocean, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts by Edward Fry (1892)
"Several tion that the sale is without reserve, the employment of two or more
persons as puffers has in all Courts been considered fraudulent, ..."
5. Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... jaw, and is given to fishes known as the puffers, the Sun-fishes, ...
The puffers have the power of greatly inflating themselves by swallowing air, ..."
6. Rights, Remedies and Practice, at Law, in Equity and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1889)
"Fictitious Bids—"puffers "—Agreements not to Compete.—The best statement of the
state of the English law as to illusory bids and purling at auctions, ..."
7. A Treatise on the American Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Property by George William Warvelle (1902)
"... so made and to refuse to consummate the sale should they prove untrue.20 § 250.
puffers and by-bidders. A puffer, in the strictest meaning of the ..."
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