CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. The highest accepted bidder, subject to the Vendor’s Reserve (if any) to be the Purchaser and if any
dispute arises between two or more bidders the lot in dispute to be immediately put up again at the last
undisputed bidding and resold, the Auctioneers to be sole arbitrators in all matters in dispute. The
Auctioneers reserve the right of bidding for, withdrawing from, consolidating or dividing any lots, or
varying the order of the Sale.
2. No Private Treaty Sale prior to Auction will be permitted.
3. No person to advance less than the sum named by the Auctioneers, and no bidding to be retracted.
4. The Purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and pay down, if required, 25% of the whole
of the purchase money at the fall of the hammer, in default of which the lot or lots of purchased to be
immediately put up again & resold.
5. The whole of the remainder of the purchase money must be paid on or before delivery. If one person
purchases two or more lots the prices of all must be paid before delivery of any. No cheques will be
taken from persons unknown to the Auctioneers without a satisfactory reference or banker’s guarantee.
All lots to be paid for and cleared on the day of Sale.
6. On no account will the transferring of any lot or lots be allowed.
7. No lot to be removed without a delivery order, signed by the Auctioneers or their Clerk.
8. No vehicle purchased in this Sale can be taken on the highway unless the Purchaser has first satisfied
himself as to the roadworthiness thereof.
9. Purchasers shall have no right as against the Auctioneers or Vendor to avail themselves of any
set-off or other plea in respect of any error, misdescription, defect or deficiency, either on the part of
the Auctioneers or the Vendor, and the Vendor shall have no right against the Auctioneers for any
proceeds of sale until they have received same, unless they deliver the lot or lots to a purchaser without
the consent of a Vendor.
10. To avoid mistakes, no lots must on any account whatever be taken away unless delivered by the person
appointed for this purpose, neither can any lot be delivered during the hours of the Sale. The lot or lots
not cleared within the specified time shall be resold without further notice by public or private sale at the
discretion of the Auctioneers and the deficiency (if any) together with all charges attending the same
shall be made good by the defaulter or defaulters at this Sale, who shall have no claim to any surplus
which may arise at such second Sale, whether or not a deposit shall have been paid.
11. The lots to lie at the Purchaser’s risk immediately they are sold and shall be cleared way, with all faults,
defects, deficiencies and errors of description, by the Purchaser, at his or her expense, not later than
noon SUNDAY 16
TH
JUNE. The whole of the remainder of the money must be paid on or before
delivery and the purchaser shall be answerable for any damage or loss occasioned by the removal of
their respective lots, either to the lots or to the premises, the amount of such damage to be assessed by
the Auctioneers. The Auctioneers reserve the right to make an allowance in proportion to the purchaser
money of such lots for the whole or any portion of the lots not delivered.
12. All measurements, weights, ages, dates of service and other particulars in the catalogue, whether
relating to live or deadstock, are statements of fact only and are bona fide given on the information
supplied to the Auctioneers, but the Auctioneers will not under any circumstances be responsible, nor
will any allowance whatever be made to the Purchasers, should there be any error or mis-description
in any lot in the catalogue and no warranty is given or to be implied by or under any description
in the catalogue. This condition of sale shall not apply to any warranty incorporated in the catalogue
containing words expressly excluding the same.
13. The Auctioneers take no personal responsibility for the correctness of any statements in the Catalogue
which are made on the entire responsibility of the Vendors.
14. The Auctioneers will, save where in their absolute discretion they decide not to do so, disclose to a
Purchaser on request the name, description and address as given to them of the Vendor of a lot.
Whether or not the Auctioneers disclose a Vendor’s name they will be deemed in all cases and for all
purposes to sell as Agents for a disclosed Principal.
15. All lots in the Sale are deemed by the Auctioneers to belong to the person making the entry (except
when an entry is made by an agent acting on behalf of a disclosed Principal, then the said lots shall be
deemed to belong to that Principal) who shall be the Vendor and bona fide owner entitled to payment
for the lot or lots. If any lot or lots are the subject of a hire purchase agreement this must be disclosed at
the time of making the entry, the Auctioneers reserve the right of withdrawing at any time any lot or lots
which are the subject of a hire purchase agreement.
16. The Auctioneers accept no responsibility for any payment made to a Vendor purporting to be the
bona fide owner entitled to payment if it subsequently transpires that the payment is in respect of a lot
or lots which are the subject of a hire purchase agreement between the Vendor and another, in such a
case the Auctioneers disclaim all liability to discharge any obligation of the Vendor to the other party to
the said agreement.
17. If the Auctioneers shall be paid out of their own monies the purchase money of a lot to the Vendor
before they have received any notice of objection from the Purchaser with respect to that lot, they are
entitled to recover the full purchase money of the lot from the Purchaser, and the Purchaser shall not
have any right of set-off against the Auctioneers, notwithstanding any claim he may have against the
Vendor.
18. £1 a lot will be charged on all unsold lots and double commission will be charged on lots sold privately on
the premises after the Sale.
19. In the event of any conflict arising between these Conditions of Sale and any other entry in the
Catalogue of Sale, these Conditions shall prevail.
20. The Vendor reserves the right to withdraw any lots prior to Sale.