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Post-mortem bailiff's auction
Estate auction
also: sudebny pristav auction
Russian civil-procedure custom in which a court bailiff (sudebny pristav) auctioned off a deceased debtor's effects; applied bathetically in "The Hat Season" to a suicide's unsold collection of hats.
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- Captions for Drawings §379 a court bailiff came to his apartment and sold at auction
A sudebny pristav (court bailiff) conducting a post-mortem auction of a deceased debtor's effects was a familiar bureaucratic ritual of Russian civil procedure, here applied bathetically to a suicide's unsold hats.
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