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LANDLORD AND TENANT. [ART. 67.

1G & J 266 , 4
Gill 209.

render such grain or produce according to the terms of the contract,
the landlord may levy a distress for the same.

Id s 11
1881, c 171, s 2
Bailiff to sum-
mon appraisers
to value rent
22 Md 315 , 27
Md 189, 451

11. Where the distress is for grain or produce, the bailiff or per-
son authoiized to levy said distress shall summon and cause to be
sworn two disinterested persons, whose duty it shall be, under the
said oath, to estimate the money value of the specific amount or
quantity of grain or other produce, or proportion of the crops agreed
upon as rent; and thereupon the bailiff, or person aforesaid, shall

To levy for
value as money.

pioceed to levy the said distress as in ordinary cases of money rent,
and taking such estimated value to be such money rent.

Id. s 12
1831, c 171,s 2
Tenant may
deliver gram or
pay valuc.

12. The tenant, whose goods are distrained under the last pre-
ceding section, shall have his election at any time before the goods,
chattels, and property distrained, shall be sold under such distress,
to deliver the rent of grain or other produce, or proportion of crops,
to the landlord, or to pay him the estimated value, together, in both
cases, with the expenses of said distress; whereupon all proceedings

To have remedy
by replevin.

in the said distress shall ceasc. But nothing herein contained shall
debar said tenant from any action of replevin for the goods and chattels
and property distrained as aforesaid, wherein it shall be lawful for the
tenant to contest the fairness of such valuation; and the said action
shall in all respects be pioceeded with, and the same verdict shall

Proceedings on
replevin.

be rendered as in cases of replevin of goods and chattels for money
rent, the jury assuming the estimated value, or what in their judg-
ment the estimated value should have been, to be such money rent.

1868, c 292
When rent a
hen on crops

13, In all cases of renting lands, wherein a share of the growing
crop or crops shall be reserved as rent, said rent reserved shall be
a lien on such crop or crops, which shall not be diverted by any sale
made thereof by the tenant, or by the assignment of the tenant in
bankruptcy or insolvency, or by the process of law issued against
the tenant.

1876, c 384
When rent and
advances a lieu
on crops

14. In all cases of renting lands, wherein a share of the grow-
ing crop or crops shall be reserved as rent, or wherein advances by
the landlord have been made upon the faith of the crops to be grown,
said rent reserved, and such advances made, shall be a lien on such
crop or crops, which shall not be diverted by any sale made thereof,
by the tenant, or by any administrator of a deceased tenant, or by
the assignment of the tenant in insolvency, or by the process of law
issued against the tenant; provided, that at the time of the said rent-

Contracts in
writing

ing the contract under and by which the said advances are to be
made, shall be reduced to writing, duly attested and executed by the
said landlord and tenant. The provisions of this section shall only

To what coun-
ties applicable

apply to the counties of St. Mary's, Prince George's, Charles, and
Calvert.

Art. S3, s 13
1834, c 192, s 4
Officers not to
summon more
than two ap-
praisers on
distress

13. No sheriff, constable, or bailiff, in cases of distress for rent,
shall summon more than two appraisers of property distrained; and
the compensation of the appraisers shall be thirty cents each, to be
recovered and paid as other costs in such cases.