Mississippi Code § 13-3-75

Return of alias where first writ served
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If any process be executed, and for want of a return thereof other process be issued, the sheriff or other officer shall not execute the subsequent process, but shall return the first process by him executed, if it be in his possession, and, if it be not in his possession, he shall return the subsequent process, with an indorsement of the execution of the first process, and how it was executed, on which there shall be the same proceedings as if the said first process had been duly returned. Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (42); 1857, ch. 61, art. 72; 1871, § 714; 1880, § 2288; 1892, § 3441; 1906, § 3940; Hemingway's 1917, § 2947; 1930, § 2993; 1942, § 1875.
If any process be executed, and for want of a return thereof other process be issued, the sheriff or other officer shall not execute the subsequent process, but shall return the first process by him executed, if it be in his possession, and, if it be not in his possession, he shall return the subsequent process, with an indorsement of the execution of the first process, and how it was executed, on which there shall be the same proceedings as if the said first process had been duly returned. Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (42); 1857, ch. 61, art. 72; 1871, § 714; 1880, § 2288; 1892, § 3441; 1906, § 3940; Hemingway's 1917, § 2947; 1930, § 2993; 1942, § 1875.
If any process be executed, and for want of a return thereof other process be issued, the sheriff or other officer shall not execute the subsequent process, but shall return the first process by him executed, if it be in his possession, and, if it be not in his possession, he shall return the subsequent process, with an indorsement of the execution of the first process, and how it was executed, on which there shall be the same proceedings as if the said first process had been duly returned. Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (42); 1857, ch. 61, art. 72; 1871, § 714; 1880, § 2288; 1892, § 3441; 1906, § 3940; Hemingway's 1917, § 2947; 1930, § 2993; 1942, § 1875.
If any process be executed, and for want of a return thereof other process be issued, the sheriff or other officer shall not execute the subsequent process, but shall return the first process by him executed, if it be in his possession, and, if it be not in his possession, he shall return the subsequent process, with an indorsement of the execution of the first process, and how it was executed, on which there shall be the same proceedings as if the said first process had been duly returned.
Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 58, art. 1 (42); 1857, ch. 61, art. 72; 1871, § 714; 1880, § 2288; 1892, § 3441; 1906, § 3940; Hemingway's 1917, § 2947; 1930, § 2993; 1942, § 1875.

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