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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 775   View pdf image (33K)
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2 W. & M. CAP. 5, SALES OF DISTRESS. 775
may lawfully sell the Goods and Chattels so distrained for the
best price can be gotten for the same, towards Satisfaction of
the Rent for which the said Goods and Chattels shall be dis-
trained, and of the Charges of such Distress, Appraisement,
and Sale, leaving the Overplus (if any) in the Hands of the
said Sheriff, Under Sheriff, or Constable, for the Owners use.
III. And whereas no Sheaves or Cocks of Corn loose or in
the Straw, or Hay in any Barn or Granary, or in any Hovel,
Stack, or Rick, can by the Law be distrained, or otherwise
secured for Rent, whereby Landlords are oftentimes cousened
and deceived by their Tenants, who sell their Cora, Grain, and
Hay to Strangers, and remove the same from the Premisses
chargeable with such Rent, and thereby avoid the payment of
the same; be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That for remedying the said practice, and deceit, it shall and
may, from and after the said First day of June. be lawful to
and for any Person or Persons having Rent, Arrear, and Due
upon any such Demise, Lease, or Contract as aforesaid, to seize
and secure any Sheaves or Cocks of Corn, or Corn loose or in
the Straw, or Hay lying or being in any Barn or Granary, or
upon any Hovel, Stack, or Rick, or otherwise upon any part of
the Land or Pound (Ground) charged with such Rent, and to
lock up or detain the same in the place where the same shall
be found, for or in the nature of a Distress, until the same shall
* be replevied upon such Security to be given as aforesaid; 569
and in default of replevying the same as aforesaid, within the
time aforesaid, to sell the same after such Appraisement thereof
to be made; so as nevertheless such Corn, Grain, or Hay so dis-
trained, as aforesaid, be not removed by the Person or Persons
distraining, to the damage of the Owner thereof, out of the
Place where the same shall be found and seized, but be kept
there (as impounded) until the same shall be replevied, or sold,
in default of replevying the same within the time aforesaid.
IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That upon any Pound-breach or Rescous of Goods or Chattels
distrained for Rent, the Person or Persons grieved thereby
shall, in a special Action upon the Case for the Wrong thereby
sustained, recover his and their Treble Damages and Costs of
Suit against the Offender or Offenders in any such Rescous or
Pound-breach, any or either of them, or against the Owners
of the Goods distrained, in case the same be afterwards found
to have come to his Use or Possession.

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