from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
VENDITIONI EXPONAS, practice. That you expose to sale. The name of a writ of
execution, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to sell goods or
chattels, and in some states, lands, which he has taken in execution by
virtue of a fieri facias, and which remain unsold.
2. Under this writ the sheriff is bound to sell the property in his
hands, and he cannot return a second time, that he can get no buyers. Cowp.
406; and see 2 Saund. 47, 1. 2 Chit. Rep. 390; Com. Dig. Execution, C 8;
Grab. Pr. 359; 8 Bouv. Inst. n. 3395.