West Virginia Code § 38-5-5

Compelling debtor to answer
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If any person summoned under the four preceding sections shall fail to appear and answer,
or shall make any answers which are deemed by the commissioner to be evasive, or if having
answered shall fail to make such conveyance, assignment and delivery as is required by such
sections, such commissioner shall issue a writ directed to the sheriff of the county requiring
such sheriff to take the debtor or other person summoned and to keep him seafely until he
shall make proper answers, or such conveyance, delivery or assignment as the case may be,
and upon making such answer or such conveyance, delivery or assignmrent, he shall be
discharged by such commissioner. He may also be discharged by the court from whose
clerk's office the fieri facias or execution issued, or by the judge thereof in vacation, in any
case, if the court or judge shall be of opinion that he was improperly or unlawfully detained
in custody. t

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