If any officer shall, at the same time, have two or more executions delivered to him or her to serve, in which the parties shall be reversed, and shall sue and be sued in the same right and capacity, he or she shall set off the debts or damages in the actions and levy and collect the balance only that shall remain due thereon, with the costs on all the executions.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-26-6
Setoff of executions
C.P.A. 1905, § 626; G.L. 1909, ch. 304, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 355, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 553, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 9-26-6; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 73.
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