Lat You expose to sale. This is the name of a writ VENDITOR 1199 VENTE of execution, requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied upon goods under a fieri facias , but returned that they remained unsold for want of buyers ; and in some jurisdictions it is issued to cause a sale to be made of lands, seized under a former writ, after they have been condemned or passed upon by an inquisition . Frequently abbreviated to “vend, ex.” See Beebe v. U. S., 161 U. S. 104, 16 Sup. Ct. 532, 40 L. Ed. 633; Borden v. Tillman, 39 Tex. 273; Ritchie v. Higginbotham, 26 Kan. 648.
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