Case Name: Weaver v. Lawrence
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1788-12
Citations: 1 Dall. 379
Docket Number: 
Parties: Weaver v. Lawrence.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 397–397

Head Matter:
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 ?

Opinion:
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.