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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
[CHAP. XLIX.

shall be discharged and recover costs. If the plaintiff shall recover against the defendant in attachment, and the garnishee shall deliver up all property, moneys, and credits of the defendant in possession, and pay all the moneys from him due as the court may order, the garnishee shall be discharged, and the costs of the proceedings against him shall be paid out of the property and moneys so surrendered, or as the court may think right and proper.

Sect. 31. If judgment be rendered in the action for the defendant, the attachment shall be discharged, and the property attached or its proceeds shall be returned to him.

Sect. 32. If judgment be rendered for the plaintiff, it shall be satisfied as follows: so much of the property remaining in the hands of the officer, after applying the moneys arising from the sale of perishable property, if any, whether held by legal or equitable right, as may be necessary to satisfy the judgment, shall be sold by order of the justice, under the same restrictions and regulations as if the same had been levied on by execution; and the money arising therefrom, with the amount which may be recovered from the garnishee, shall be applied to satisfy the judgment and costs. If there be not enough to satisfy the same, the judgment shall stand, and execution may issue thereon for the residue, in all respects as in other cases. Any surplus of the attached property or its proceeds, shall be returned to the defendant.

Sect. 33. The justice may order the constable to repossess himself, for the purpose of selling it, of any of the attached property which may have passed out of his hands without being sold or converted into money; and the constable shall under such order have the same power to take the property, as he would have under an order of attachment.

Sect. 34. If any of the property which has been attached, be claimed by any person other than the defendant, the claimant may have the validity of such claim tried, and such proceedings must be had thereon, with like effect, as in case the property had been seized upon execution issued by the justice and claimed by a third person.

Sect. 35. Where several attachments are executed on the same property, or the same persons are made garnishees, the justice issuing the first order, served on the motion of any of the plaintiffs, may determine the amounts and priorities of