Chap. 15.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 16 of Chapter 151
of the Code of 1860, with reference to Sales under Attachments.

Approved January 16, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the sixteenth
section of the one hundred and fifty-first chapter of the Code
of 1830 be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“8 16. All property seized under any attachment or enjoin-
ing order of a court of chancery, and not replevied or sold
before judgment or decree, shall be kept in the same manner
as similar property taken under execution; but such as is ex-
pensive to keep or perishable may be sold by order of the court,
or if it be a circuit court, or the court of chancery of the city
of Richmond in vacation thereof by order of the judge, such
sale to be made in the same manner as if it were a sale under
execution, except that when the claim for which the attachment
was sued out is not yet payable, or the court or judge sees other
reason for directing a credit, the sale under this or any other
section of this chapter shall be on credit until the time it is
payable, or such other time as the court or judge may direct.
And for the proceeds of sale, bond with good security shall be
taken, payable to the officer for the benefit of the party entitled,
and shall be returned by the officer to the court.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.