When an execution against an executor or administrator, issued from the probate court on any judgment, order or decree for money is returned to any regular term of such court "no property" by the sheriff of the county, such judgment, order or decree may be enforced against the executor or administrator and his sureties, by execution or by process of garnishment, which may issue in like cases and manner as it may issue on judgment in circuit courts and may, in like manner, be prosecuted to judgment against the garnishee.
Ala. Code § 43-2-151 (1975)