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Execution against Beneficed Clergymen.
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CXXXVI. Where to a Writ of Fieri facias issued against a Beneficed Clergyman the Sheriff shall have returned Nulla bona, and that the Defendant is a Beneficed Clerk having no Lay Fee, the Plaintiff may as of course issue a Writ of Execution De bonis ecclesiasticis, directed to the Bishop of any Diocese in which the Defendant may have a Benefice, and at any Time after a Writ of Execution De bonis ecclesiasticis shall have been delivered to any Bishop the Plaintiff may apply to the Court by Motion for an Order that the Bishop do certify what has been done under the Writ, and that the Sequestrator do account; and where, in obedience to any such Writ of Fieri facias, De bonis ecclesiasticis, a Sequestration of the Ecclesiastical Benefice shall be issued by any Bishop, it shall be lawful for any Court in which any Judgment shall be had against the same Defendant, and Execution issued and returned Nulla bona, to make an Order extending the said Sequestration to the Matter of the said last-mentioned Judgment, without any further Writ or Proceeding; and the said last-mentioned Creditor shall have the Benefit of such Sequestration, and with Priority as from the Date of such Order of Extension, as if it were a Sequestration issued at his own Instance.
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