If any property taken in execution shall remain in the hands of the officer unsold, he shall so return on the execution, and thereupon a writ of venditioni exponas shall issue, directed to the officer, upon which the like proceedings shall be had as might and ought to have been had on the first execution. And if property sold on a venditioni exponas shall not bring enough to satisfy the judgment, the officer shall forthwith return the same, and thereupon another proper execution for the balance remaining unpaid may be issued.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 62, art. 1 (18); 1857, ch. 61, art. 279; 1871, § 848; 1880, § 1761; 1892, § 3492; 1906, § 3990; Hemingway's 1917, § 2997; 1930, § 3043; 1942, § 1931.
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