13-3-177 - Venditioni exponas to issue when officer taking property dies. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 13-3-177. Venditioni exponas to issue when officer taking property dies.
 

When the officer taking property under execution shall die before the sale thereof, a writ of venditioni exponas shall issue, directed to the proper officer of the county in which the property was taken, and such officer shall, under the writ of venditioni exponas, receive the property from the representatives of the former sheriff, or other officer, who are required to deliver the same to the officer having the venditioni exponas, on his producing the same and executing a receipt for the property, and the officer shall proceed to sell the same as in other cases. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 62, art. 1 (52); 1847, ch. 61, art. 292; 1871, § 856; 1880, § 1771; 1892, § 3493; 1906, § 3991; Hemingway's 1917, § 2998; 1930, § 3044; 1942, § 1932.