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Sheriffs neglecting to pay over deposit or sums levied under decrees, liable to pay double to party aggrieved.
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131. . . . if the sheriff shall refuse or neglect to pay over any sum levied by virtue of any execution of such decree or dismiss to the person or persons entitled thereto, or to such person or persons as by him or them shall be lawfully authorized to receive the same, upon demand made for that purpose, such sheriff so offending shall forfeit to the party aggrieved double the sum so deposited with or received by such sheriff, together with legal interest for the same from the time of such demand, to be recovered by civil bill before the assistant barrister for the county for which such sheriff so acted, with like power of appeal is in the case of any ordinary civil bill.
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