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All judgments, orders, and decrees of the probate court against an executor or administrator for the payment of money may be enforced by execution or by process of garnishment, which may issue in like cases and manner as it may issue on judgments in circuit courts, and may, in like manner, be prosecuted to judgment against the garnishee; for the delivery of personal property, by attachment or a special order to the sheriff, requiring him to take such property and deliver the same according to the judgment, order or decree; for the possession of land, by a writ to the sheriff against the executor or administrator, requiring him to put the heir or devisee in possession of the same.

(Code 1852, §1921; Code 1867, §2280; Code 1876, §2618; Code 1886, §2276; Code 1896, §345; Code 1907, §2812; Code 1923, §6051; Code 1940, T. 61, §128.)