If the special writ of execution be for the sale of a steamboat or other water craft, the officer shall levy on, advertise and sell the same as personal property too cumbersome to be moved is levied on and sold for debt; and the purchaser shall acquire the same free from all prior encumbrances saving the rights of those having concurrent liens under this chapter.Codes, 1892, § 2711; 1906, § 3071; Hemingway's 1917, § 2431; 1930, § 2254; 1942, § 352.
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