534:17 Time. – If no time is specified for the return, but the writ is returnable immediately, the return shall be made within three days after the service, unless the prisoner is to be brought more than twenty miles, in which case the return shall be made within so many days more as will be equal to one day for every ten miles of such further distance. Source. RS 202:17. CS 215:17. GS 224:17. GL 243:17. PS 239:17. PL 350:17. RL 406:17.
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