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Chairman may renew decree in ejectment, for re-execution, if possession be unlawfully taken by defendant within six months after execution.
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44. Where a decree for the possession of lands shall have been pronounced by the chairman of the county, and the defendant in such decree shall, after the same shall have been executed by the sheriff, and within six calendar months after the execution of such decree, unlawfully re-enter or take possession of the lands mentioned therein, it shall be lawful for the chairman, upon the application of the plaintiff therein, to renew such decree for the purpose of enabling the said plaintiff to re-execute the same, provided that such application shall be made at a sessions to be held for the division in which such lands are situated of which such possession shall have been unlawfully taken as aforesaid by the defendant in any such decree; such renewal to be granted upon such notice and in like manner as renewals of decrees in ordinary civil bill cases are now by law authorized to be granted.
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