A writ will not abate, served by a deputy sheriff, where the pheriff had been committed to Jail, was released from his confinement, had procured a certificate from a Judge of the County Court of his discharge, and the same recorded according to law, and had obtaine d the keys from the high bailiff; though the certificate had not been delivered to the high bailiff

See Abatement 2, 9. Pauper Cases 6, 10. Poor Debtor I.