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29 S.C.L. 90

Vance v. Red

Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Decided December 15, 1843

Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1843-12-15

Before O’Neall, J. at Spartanburg, Extra Term, August, •1843. This was an action of trespass, to try titles to a tract of land. The defendant, Scarlet Red, was the owner of the land. It was sold on the 2nd January, 1842, under an execution lodged on the 10th of November, 1341, and issuing under a judgment, signed 6th November, 1841, in the case of JV. R. Eaves vs. Scarlet Red.

Decided 1843-12-15

¶1Curia, per

Richardson, J.

¶2The only question is, whether the sale made by the sheriff to Vance and Davis, under the judgment of Eaves, can be supported by the elder judgment of Ross. Or, does the endorsement “wait orders,” (fee. suspend the lien, or binding efficacy of that judgment, so as to rest the sale, exclusively, upon the younger judgment, as if the former did not existí

¶3*92It is of no consequence under what named execution or judgment, the sheriff sells a defendant’s property, the sale is, in virtue of all existing liens of the kind, and every execution gives the practical authority to sell until all are satisfied, and the liens are satisfied successively, in the order of priority of time ; and thus each execution amounts to a venditioni exponas for all the preceeding judgments. But does the indorsement “wait orders,” «fee. lift or destroy the prior lien on the older judgment, like an injunction out of chancery'?

¶4The intention of such an order, is plainly to suspend the active proceeding of the sheriff. It could, at most, amount to a suspension or withdrawal of the execution, not of the lien of the judgment.

¶5But the old case of Snipes vs. The Sheriff of Charleston District, in 1 Bay, 295, and again in Greenwood et al. vs. Naylor, 1 McCord, 414, decides the very case; the binding efficacy of the judgment remains, the active energy only of the execution is suspended, and the money raised, must still go to the first lien.

¶6The contract of Young, to satisfy the elder j udgment to Ross, and the actual offer to pay it, after the sale by the sheriff, to Vance and Davis, could not alter their vested rights. Their title had, then, become perfected.

¶7The court, therefore, perceive no good ground for the motion, which is accordingly dismissed.

O’Neall and Butler, JJ. concurred.
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