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14. In all cases of distress for rent, the tenant shall be liable
to the landlord for costs.

15. Landlords who may have the right of distress, may exer-
cise that right as well in cases where security has been given to
them, as where no security has been given.

16. Every distress for rent, which shall be made contrary to
the provisions of this article, and all sales made under and by
virtue of such distress, shall be absolutely illegal and void.

17. The following property shall be exempt from distress for
rent, to wit; Every negro slave to which tho tenant is not bona
fide entitled; every spinning wheel and loom which may be
loaned or hired to the tenant; every stove rented or hired to
a tenant, where the contract of hiring or renting is in writing
signed by the parties thereto, and acknowledged before a
justice of the peace of the district or ward wherein the
parties reside; and the justice shall enter upon his docket the
substance of the contract, and that the parties acknowledged the
same; and every stove lent, if the borrower shall at the time of
lending give to the lender a certificate or admission in writing of
the fact of such lending.

18. Whenever property shall be removed from premises which
have been rented, within sixty days prior or subsequent to the
time when the rent has or will become due, and whether such
removal be by night or day, it shall be lawful for the landlord to
follow, seize and sell such property, under distress for the rent
due, at any time within sixty days after the time when the
rent becomes duo; Provided, that such property shall not have
been sold to a bona fide purchaser without notice, or taken in
execution.

19. The rents of real estate of minors, or of leasehold estates
that may not be due at the death of such minor, shall, for the
year in which such minor may die, be paid to the guardian who
may maintain distress or suit to recover such rent.

20. If such guardian dies before the recovery of said rent, the
executor or administrator of such guardian may recover the
same by distress or suit.
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