When the sheriff shall return, on any process, that he has been kept off by force, the plaintiff may issue an alias or pluries, as the case may be, or he may proceed in the action against the defendant as if the process had been returned executed.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (41); 1857, ch. 61, art. 71; 1871, § 713; 1880, § 2287; 1892, § 3440; Laws, 1906, § 3939; Hemingway's 1917, § 2946; Laws, 1930, § 2992; Laws, 1942, § 1874.
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