Shipper, President.
I cannot perceive anything in the act of assembly which precludes the sheriff from holding an inquest, after the return of the fi. fa. ; and I have always understood it to be the *practice to do so. pogQ The present inquisition, being quashed for irregularity, becomes a L nullity, and leaves the case just as if none had been taken.
See McCormick v. Meason, 1 S. & R. 92; Miller v. Milford, 2 Id. 35.