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PROCEEDINGS IN ACTIONS AT LAW. [ART. 64.

Id s 2
1794, c 60. s 10,
1810, c 160, s 2
Purchaser of
equitable estate
entitled to con-
veyance.

J57. Any person who shall purchase any equitable estate or
interest in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments which may be
sold under the preceding section, shall he entitled, upon payment
of the purchase money, to an assignment or conveyance of such
equitable interest, to be made by the sheriff or other officer making
such sale, and shall in consequence of such purchase and assign-
mentor conveyance, stand as to title, and be entitled to such remedy
against all persons and in all cases as the person whose title he may
purchase.

Id s 3
1831, o 290, s 2
What may be
sold under exe-
cution from a
justice of the
peace
28 Md 388, 488.

158. Any constable or sheriff by virtue of any execution on any
judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, may seize and sell the
interest and estate at law and in equity of the party against whose
property said execution shall have issued in and to any lands or
tenements within the county or city in which such execution shall
issue.

Id s 4
1813, c 102, s 7,
1816, c 129, 1831,
c 290, s 1, 1833,
c 92
Legal notices
to be given by
sheriff, etc
15 Md 544,
7 G & J 494,
3 Gill. 500.

159. The legal notice required to he given by any sheriff, con-
stable, coroner, or elisor, of the sale of any goods or chattels, lands,
or tenements, under any execution, shall be as follows: in the case
of the sale of goods and chattels, the notice shall be by advertise-
ment set up at least ten days before the sale at the court-house door
of the county or city, and at least two other public places most con-
venient to such goods and chattels, and in the case of lands or
tenements, notice thereof shall be given by advertisement set up at
least twenty days before the day of sale at the court-house door of the
county or city, and also published for the same period of time pre-
vious to the day of sale in one newspaper, if any, published in said
county or city, but notice of a constable's sale of goods and chat-
tels, need not be set up at the court-house door.

Id B 5.
1828, c 187
Editor neglect-
ing to publish
notice, how
officer to
proceed.

160, If the editor of a newspaper in any county shall refuse or
neglect to publish, on application to him by the sheriff, coroner,
elisor, constable, or other officer, the notice required to be given by
such officer for the sale of lands or tenements, the same may be
given by advertisement set up at least twenty days before the sale
at the court-house door, and other public places of the county in
which such property may be, and the said officer shall annex to his
return of the writ under which sale shall be made, a statement on
oath of the refusal of said editor to publish said notice in his news-
paper; and the demand of an exorbitant price by an editor shall be
deemed a refusal.

Id s 6
1847, c 334
Costs of pub-
lication

161., Any sheriff, constable, or other officer who shall by virtue
of any legal process give notice by publication in any newspaper
of the sale of any lands or tenements, as required by law, may re-
cover the costs of such publication from the defendant in such pro-
cess as other legal costs, and if the defendant be unable to pay the
same, the sheriff, constable, or other officer, after having paid the
same, may recover the amount so paid from the plaintiff as other
debts are collected.