Case ID: us_1/html/0397-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Shipper, President.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Weaver v. Lawrence.
    
      Inquisition.
    
    Where an inquisition upon lands, under a fi. fa., has been quashed for irregularity, the sheriff may proceed to hold a new inquest, after the return of thefi. fa., without a new writ.
    There had been a levy upon lands, by virtue of a fi. fia. issued in this case, returnable to the present term; and now, on Levy's motion, the inquisition, which had been held upon the value of the lands, was quashed.
    It then became a question, whether a new fi. fa. must be issued; or whether the sheriff might proceed, after the return of the former writ, to take a new inquisition, without further process ?
   Shipper, President.

I cannot perceive anything in the act of assembly which precludes the sheriff from holding an inquest, after the return of the fi. fa. ; and I have always understood it to be the *practice to do so. pogQ The present inquisition, being quashed for irregularity, becomes a L nullity, and leaves the case just as if none had been taken. 
      
       See McCormick v. Meason, 1 S. & R. 92; Miller v. Milford, 2 Id. 35.