If a sheriff fails to make titles to a purchaser, his successor in office may make them in the same manner as if he had sold the property.
(Laws 1799, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 576; Code 1863, § 2583; Code 1868, § 2585; Code 1873, § 2627; Code 1882, § 2627; Civil Code 1895, § 5453; Civil Code 1910, § 6058; Code 1933, § 39-1304.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 50A C.J.S., Judicial Sales, §§ 12-24.
ALR.
- Validity of sale by sheriff or similar public officer as affected by previous removal, resignation, or expiration of term, 10 A.L.R. 1341.