George Robins versus Burke and Grubb [electronic resource] : in the Court of Exchequer, in respect to the right of an auctioneer to claim commission upon the sale of an estate, where the defendants had at the eleventh hour sold the property to the Duke of Buckingham, purposely to avoid this legitimate claim : the verdict has set this question at rest for ever, inasmuch as the learned judge (the Chief Baron of Exchequer) was throughout in favour of the legitimacy of the claim, and the jury, without leaving their box, unhesitatingly gave a verdict for the whole sum claimed, viz., six hundred & forty-four pounds, eight shillings & sixpence : extract from "The Law Times" of July 12th, "In other words, that a vendor shall not defraud an auctioneer of the fruit of his exertions by anticipating him in the sale for such in plain terms is the meaning of this most righteous decision."