South Carolina Sheriff's Sales - Volume 2 - 1840-1842

This Book is the second in a series that compiles sales advertised in South Carolina newspapers by sheriffs of property to pay debts etc. What is a Sheriff’s Sale? This question was clearly answered by The Rev. W. Becket Soule Tribunal Office Diocese of Charlotte in his review of my first book in this series—South Carolina Sheriff’s Sales 1836-1839—which appeared in the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal Volume 46 Number 1. Quoting Rev. Soule:“A sheriff’s sale is a public auction where property is repossessed; the proceeds may be used to repay mortgage lenders banks tax collectors or other litigants who have lost money on the property. A sheriff’s sale occurs at the end of the foreclosure process when the initial property owner can no longer make good on mortgage payments but such a sale can also occur to satisfy judgments and tax liens. The legal document which sets this process in motion technically a writ of execution is referred to as fieri facias usually abbreviated as fi. fa. (Latin for “you cause to be made”).