Section 26: Execution against goods and chattels

26. Execution against goods and chattels (1) Every usher executing any process or execution against the goods and chattels of any person, shall deliver to that person a list of any goods and effects so seized, and no sale of any such goods shall take place until 4 days after notice of the sale has been published in the Gazette, unless such goods are, in the opinion of the Magistrate, of a perishable nature, or upon the request in writing of the party whose goods have been taken. (2) Until such sale, the goods shall be deposited by the usher in some fit place, or they shall remain in the custody of a fit person approved by the said usher. (3) Such goods shall be sold by the usher, and every usher levying or receiving any money by virtue of any process issuing out of a Court shall forthwith pay over the same to the cashier who shall keep the same 3 days before paying the party entitled.