The sale shall be made under the execution levied thereon, although the return day thereof may have passed.

History of Section.
C.P.A. 1905, § 638; G.L. 1909, ch. 304, § 15; G.L. 1923, ch. 355, § 15; G.L. 1938, ch. 553, § 15; G.L. 1956, § 9-26-18.