If, after the sale of real estate upon execution process, the judgment upon which such writ is awarded shall be reversed for error, the real estate, so sold, shall not be restored, nor any part thereof, nor shall the sale thereof be avoided; but in such case, restitution only of the money for which such lands may be sold, shall be made.

Code 1852, § ?2501; Code 1915, § ?4418; Code 1935, § ?4876; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?5094;