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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

rect a writ of venditioni exponas to be issued, directed
to the sheriff, or some one of the coroners (as the case
may require,) of the county wherein the goods or chat-
tels, lands or tenements so taken in execution as aforesaid
may be or lie, and such writ of venditioni exponas shall
accordingly issue reciting in a special manner the circum-
stances of the case; and the sheriff or coroner to whom
any such writ of venditioni exponas shall be directed and
delivered, shall seize and take, and he is hereby authoris-
ed and empowered to seize and take into his possession,
the goods or chattels, lands or tenements mentioned and
Bet forth in such writ of venditioni exponas in whosoe-
ver hands or possession the same may be found., and
shall proceed alter due and legal notice to sell the same
at public sale in the same manner as if the said goods or
chattels, lands or tenements had been seized and taken
by such sheriff or coroner upon a writ of fieri facias to
him directed and delivered for that purpose; and shall
make return thereof to the court from whence the said
writ of venditioni cxponas shall have issued, and such
sheriff or coroner shall be liable to be proceeded against,
and his bond as sheriff or coroner shall be answerable
in the same manner for any neglect of duty of such she-
riff or coroner, as on other writs of venditioni exponas
to them directed and delivered.

Sales shall
be valid.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any sale so to be
made by any sheriff or coroner, in virtue of any such
writ of venditioni exponas as aforesaid, shall be as valid
and effectual as if the same had been made by the sheriff,
coronor or easor, who had seized and taken the said
goods or chattels, lands or tenements under the writ of
fieri facias.

Deed.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
sale of any lands or tenements under and in virtue of
any writ of venditioni exponas as above mentioned, the
sheriff or coroner who shall have sold the same shall ex-
ecute to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, a deed of
conveyance therefor, and such deed of conveyance be-
ing acknowledged and recorded according to law shall
be as operative in law to every intent as if the sheriff or
coroner, in virtue of a writ of fieri facias to him direct-
ed and delivered for that purpose, had seized and taken
such lands or tenements and exposed the same to sale as
aforesaid.

Sale of land
&c. being
made and she-
riff, &c. dies
before execut-
ing a deed,
court shall di-
rect.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any she.
riff, coroner or elisor hath made or shall make sale of
any lands or tenements, and hath died without executing
a deed of conveyance to the purchaser or purchasers
thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the court, out of
which the writ of fieri facias or venditioni exponas (as
the case may be,) hath issued or shall issue, on applica-
tion of the purchaser or purchasers, or his or their legal
representatives, to order and direct the sheriff for the