It shall be the duty of every sheriff to keep a record, to be called the 'Execution docket,' in which he shall note each execution received by him, specifying the names of all the parties, the amount and date of the judgment, the court from which issued and when returnable, the amount of the costs, the date when the same was received, and all levies and other proceedings had thereon. The record shall be kept by the sheriff as a public record, and at the expiration of the term of office of such sheriff, it shall be delivered to his successor.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 28, art 9 (1); 1857, ch. 6, art 127; 1871, § 233; 1880, § 339; 1892 § 4128; 1906, § 4680; Hemingway's 1917, § 3097; 1930, § 3327; 1942, § 4252; Laws, 1994, ch. 521, § 36, eff. 3/25/1994.
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