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Distress for Rent Act 1737 (c.19)
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Introductory Text
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[1.] Landlords may distrain and sell goods fraudulently carried off the premisses within 30 days,
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2. unless sold to any person not privy to the fraud.
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3. Penalty on the said fraud, or assisting thereto.
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4. If the goods exceed not the value of £50, landlords to have recourse to 2 justices.
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5. Appeal to the quarter-sessions.
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6. {Provided also, that where the party appealing shall enter into a recognizance with one or two s...}
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7. Landlords may break open houses to seize goods fraudulently secured therein;
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8. and may distrain stock or cattle on the premisses, for arrears of rent.
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9. Tenants to have notice of the place where the distress is lodged. Distress of corn, &c. to cease, if rent be paid before it be cut.
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10. Distresses may be secured, and sold on the premisses.
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11. . . .
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15. . . .
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16. Provision for landlords, where tenants desert the premisses.
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17. Tenants may appeal from the justices.
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18. Tenants holding after the time they notify for quitting, to pay double rent.
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19. Distresses for rent not unlawful, &c. for any irregularity in the disposition of them;
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20. . . .
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21. . . .
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