As Amended
SEC. 89-1-65. Sheriff's conveyance.
A conveyance of land sold by a sheriff under execution may be in the following form, and shall be sufficient to convey all of the title of the defendant in the execution, which any conveyance such officer might make would in such case convey; and a conveyance by a constable in like form, the proper changes being made, shall have the like effect in case of sale made by him, viz.:
"By virtue of an execution issued by the clerk of the circuit court of ---- county, on the ---- day of ----, A. D. ----, returnable before said court on the ---- Monday of ----, A. D. ----, to enforce the judgment of said court, rendered on the ---- day of ----, A. D. ----, in favor of ---- against ----, for ---- dollars, and costs, I, as sheriff of ---- county, have this day, according to law, sold the following lands, to wit: [here describe the land]; when ---- became the best bidder therefor at the sum of ---- dollars, and he having paid said sum of money, I now convey said land to him.
"Witness my hand, the ----, A. D. ----
_________________ Sheriff."
SOURCES: Codes, 1880, Sec. 1241; 1892, Sec. 2485; 1906, Sec. 2822; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2323; 1930, Sec. 2133; 1942, Sec. 854.