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Under-sheriff not liable for seizing goods claimed by wife, etc., of debtor.
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13.—No action shall lie against any under-sheriff for or on account of his having taken in execution under any writ of fieri facias, decree of a Civil Bill Court, warrant, certificate, or other document, any goods, animals, or other chattels found in the house or other place of residence or on the lands of the debtor and claimed or alleged (whether such claim or allegation does or does not prove to have been well-founded) to be the property of the wife or husband of the debtor, or to be the property of any parent or child of the debtor for the time being residing in the house or other place of residence of the debtor, and, in lieu of such action against the under-sheriff, the person to whom such goods, animals, or other chattels so taken in execution in fact belonged shall (if such goods, animals, or other chattels should prove not to have been the property of the debtor) be entitled to recover from the debtor by action the value of such goods, animals, and other chattels, together with such damages as such person shall have suffered by reason of such goods, animals or other chattels having been so taken in execution.
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