the same could not be given by reason of the absence of the party, his agent or attorney.
Jury to be sworn, and their duties.Sect. 439. The jury summoned as aforesaid, shall be sworn to try and determine the right of the claimant to the property in controversy, and a true verdict to give, according to the evidence. If the jury shall find the right to said goods and chattels, or any part thereof, to be in the claimant, they shall also find the value thereof, and the justice shall render judgment upon such finding of the jury, for the claimant, that he recover his costs against the plaintiff in execution, or other party to the same, for whose benefit the execution issued, and also that he have restitution of said goods and chattels, or any part thereof, according to the finding of the jury. But if the right of the said goods and chattels, and every part thereof, shall not be in the claimant according to the finding of said jury, then the said justice shall render judgment on such finding, in favor of the plaintiff in execution, or other party for whose benefit the same was issued and levied, against said claimant for costs, and award execution thereon. Such justice of the peace, in the taxation of costs accruing by reason of such claim and trial, shall allow each juror summoned and sworn, the sum of fifty cents; and for the sheriff, constable, or other officer, and witnesses, and for himself, he shall tax such fees as are allowed by law, to each, respectively, for like services rendered in other cases. Such judgment for the claimant (unless an undertaking shall be executed, as provided in the next section), shall be a justification of the officer in returning "no goods" to the writ of execution, by virtue of which the levy has been made, as to such part of the goods and chattels as were found to belong to such claimant.
Their duties.Sect. 440. If the jury shall find the property or any part thereof to be in the claimant, and the plaintiff in execution shall, at any time within three days after such trial, tender to the sheriff or other officer having such property in his custody on execution, an undertaking with good and sufficient sureties, payable to such claimant, in double the amount of the value of such property as assessed by the jury, to the effect that they will pay all damages sustained by reason of the detention or sale of such property, then the sheriff or other officer shall deliver said undertaking to claimant, and proceed