Lat. Yon expose to sale. This is the name of a writ of execution requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied npon goods under a fieri facias, but returned that they remained unsold for want of buyers ; and in some jurisdictions it is issued to cause a sale to be made of lands, seized under a former writ, after they have been condemned or passed upon by an inquisition. Frequently abbreviated to “vend, ex.”