This was a motion made by the defendant in error against the now plaintiff, in the circuit court at Alexandria, under an act of the Virginia assembly, which declares that "if any sheriff, under sheriff or other officer, shall make return on any writ of fieri facias, or venditioni exponas, that he hath levied the debt, damages or costs, as in such writ...
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