If at any sale by an officer, the purchaser shall not comply with the terms of sale, the officer may resell the property, either forthwith or under a new advertisement, or return that the property was not sold for want of bidders. If, on a resale, the property be sold for less than it sold for before, the first purchaser shall be liable for the difference to the creditor, so far as is required to satisfy him and to the debtor for the balance. This section shall not prevent the creditor from proceeding as he might have done if it had not been enacted.
Structure West Virginia Code
§38-4-1. Executions Against Corporations
§38-4-2. Executions on Joint Judgments
§38-4-3. Execution for Benefit of Person Other Than Plaintiff
§38-4-4. Writs of Possession and Fieri Facias on Judgments for Specific Property
§38-4-5. Execution or Fieri Facias on Money Judgment
§38-4-6. On What Fieri Facias May Be Levied
§38-4-7. How Currency or Bank Notes Shall Be Accounted For
§38-4-8. Commencement and Duration of Lien of Fieri Facias
§38-4-10. Docketing as Constructive Notice
§38-4-11. Docketing of Execution
§38-4-12. Exemption From Execution
§38-4-13. Indorsement of Time of Receipt by Officer; Penalty for Failure to Indorse
§38-4-14. Order of Levy and Satisfaction of Several Writs
§38-4-15. Rules Concerning Distress or Levy
§38-4-16. Officer's Return Upon Fieri Facias
§38-4-17. Resale Upon Default of Purchaser
§38-4-18. Writ of Venditioni Exponas; Notice of Sale
§38-4-19. Proceeding in Case of Death of Officer Before Sale
§38-4-22. Appraisal Before Sale
§38-4-23. Method and Terms of Sale of Appraised Property
§38-4-24. Payments on Purchase Money Notes
§38-4-25. Judgment on Defaulted Purchase Money Notes
§38-4-26. Form of Judgment on Notes
§38-4-28. Liability of Officer for Money Received Under Execution Payable to Nonresident of County
§38-4-29. Successive Executions
§38-4-31. Motion to Quash Execution
§38-4-32. Limitation on Motion for Failure to Return Execution