A deed for lands and tenements, sold by virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, directed to the predecessor of the sheriff at the time in office, such predecessor having seized and taken in execution such lands and tenements, shall be valid in law, without petition to, or order of, any court for making such deed.

Code 1852, § ?2458; Code 1915, § ?4370; Code 1935, § ?4828; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?4982;