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and by virtue of any such sale; provided, such sale be ratified
and confirmed agreeably to law.
Koechlept B. Hook, 10 Md 173 Candler v. Fisher, 11 Md. 332.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 23, sec 14. 1849, ch. 491.
14. If any constable to whom any execution has issued from
any justice of the peace shall die without having made any levy
thereunder, the securities of said constable on the bond which
would be liable under the said execution may return the said
execution to the justice issuing the some, or any other justice of
the peace of the same county, if the justice issuing the same shall
have died or is not in office, with the endorsement of the fact
thereon; and the justice to whom such execution shall be
returned, shall have power to issue another execution, upon being
furnished with a copy of the judgment upon which the execution
was issued, if he is not the justice who rendered the judgment.
Ibid. sec. 15. 1845, ch 379, secs 1-3.
15. If the constable shall die after having taken in execution
any property, real or personal, before making sale thereof, his
security or other person interested in behalf of said deceased con-
stable, or the plaintiff, or any person interested on behalf of the
plaintiff, may have a new writ of fieri facias or venditioni
exponas, as the case may require, issued by the same or some
other justice of the county, directed to any constable of the
county; and under such new writ the constable shall seize and
take, and sell and convey, the property taken in execution by the
deceased constable, in the same manner as the deceased constable
might have done if he had lived.
Ibid sec. 17. 1845, ch. 379, sec. 5.
16. If a constable shall die without having made sale of
property taken in execution, his executor or administrator shall
not receive more than one-half the usual poundage fees, and the
constable who makes sale of such goods shall not receive more
than one-haif the usual poundage fees.
Ibid sec 16. 1845, ch 379, sec 4. 1853, ch. 400.
17. If any constable shall sell any lands and tenements, and
shall die or remove beyond the limits of the county, without
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