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14. No sheriff or other officer shall levy, by way of execution
against the garnishee, more than the plaintiff's debt and costs,
nor more than what the said plaintiff shall make appear to be
the value of the property and credits attached in the hands of
such garnishee, together with such costs only as the garnishee
shall put the plaintiff to by denying himself to be indebted to the
defendant and contesting the same.

- 15. The garnishee in every attachment issued in pursuance
of the preceding sections may plead in behalf of the defend-
ant any plea or pleas which the defendant might or could
plead if the summons had been served upon him and ho had
appeared.

16. In all cases of attachment, whether upon warrant, judg-
ment or decree, the plaintiff may exhibit interrogatories in
writing to the garnishee, who shall by rule of court answer each
and every of said interrogatories touching or concerning the
property of the defendant in his possession or charge, or by him
due or owing at the time of serving such attachment, or at any
other time; and if such garnishee shall neglect or refuse so to
do, the court is hereby directed to adjudge that such garnishee
hath in his possession property of the defendant, or is indebted
to such defendant to an amount and value sufficient to pay the
debt, damage and interest of said plaintiff and costs, and execu-
tion shall issue as in other cases of condemnation in the hands
of garnishees.

17. In all attachments, the garnishee may appear in court on
the return day of such attachment, or within four days there-
after, and confess the amount of goods, chattels, or credits in his
hands; and if the plaintiff will not take judgment of condemna-
tion for the amount so acknowledged, but shall claim a larger
sum, then the garnishee shall be allowed the costs of suit, unless
on a final decision the plaintiff shall recover a larger amount
than the garnishee acknowledged as aforesaid.

18. Any plaintiff in an attachment, may have the same laid
upon debts due the defendant upon judgments or decrees ren-
dered or passed by any of the courts of law or equity in this
State, and may have judgment of condemnation thereof as upon
any other debts due said defendant; but an execution may, on
application of any party to the court rendering such judgment or
decree, be issued for enforcing the payment thereof, notwith-