No alias or pluries execution shall issue until the previous execution is returned, or satisfactorily accounted for by affidavit.
Code 1858, § 3020 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 17); Shan., § 4748; Code 1932, § 8882; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-109.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 12 Tenn. Juris., Executions, §§ 10, 53.