- venditioni exponas
- /vandishiyownay ekspownas/You expose to sale.The name of a writ of execution, requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied upon goods under a fieri facias, but returned that they remained unsold for want of buyers; and in some jurisdictions it is issued to cause a sale to be made of lands, seized under a former writ, after they have been condemned or passed upon by an inquisition. Frequently abbreviated to "vend, ex." Beeve v. U. S., 161 U.S. 104, 16 S.Ct. 532, 40 L.Ed. 633; State ex rel. First Nat. Bank v. Ogden, 173 Okl. 285, 49 P.2d 565, 567.The writ gives no new authority to the sheriff but only directs him to perform his duty under the execution. Fannin's Ex'r v. Haney, 283 Ky. 68,140 S.W.2d 630, 632
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.