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Filing of inventory, &c.
Forcible entry.
Impounding of property seized.
ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1883.
Distraints for Rent.
16. The bailiff shall, as soon as may be, file in the Court copies of the said inventory, appraisement and notice.
17. The bailiffs, and officers appointed to execute distress warrants may break open inner doors; and if denied admittance to any building as to which they have a warrant to distrain, after declaring their names and business; or if, after waiting a reasonable time, no person answers, or is in the building, they may apply to the Court for authority to break open outer doors and windows so far as may be necessary to enable them to execute the warrant.
18. The Court on being satisfied, on the affidavit of one of the officers having the warrant for execution, that there are no reasonable means of executing the warrant without breaking such outer doors or windows, may grant an order in writing, addressed to a bailiff of the Court, authorizing him to break open, or have broken open, such doors and windows. Before executing such order, however, the bailiff shall inform any persons or person in or about the building, that he has such order and that he is about to act on it unless the doors or windows are opened.
19. The bailiffs may impound or otherwise secure the property seized, in or on the house or premises, chargeable with the rent, or may remove the same.
Suspension or release of distress.
Costs.
PART III.
Of application to discharge distresses and of compensation.
20. The debtor, or any other person alleging himself to be the owner of any property seized under this Ordinance, may, at any time within five days from such seizure, on twenty-four hours' notice to the party who obtained the warrant and to the bailiff, setting out the facts on which the claim is founded, verified on affidavit, apply to the Court, to discharge or suspend the warrant or to release a distrained article; and the Court may discharge or suspend such warrant or release such article accordingly, upon such terms as it thinks just.
21. Upon any such application, the costs attending it and attending the issue and execution of the warrant, shall be in the discretion of the Court, and shall be paid as the Court directs.
1666
Filing of inventory, &c.
Fatry.
Forcible
entry.
Impounding
of property scized.
ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1883.
Distraints for Rent.
16. The bailiff shall, as soon as may be, file in the Court copies of the said inventory, appraisement and notice.
17. The bailiffs, and officers appointed to execute distress warrants may break open inner doors; and if denied admittance to any building as to which they have a warrant to distrain, after declaring their names and business; or if, after waiting a reasonable time, no person answers, or is in the building, they may apply. to the Court for authority to break open outer doors and windows so far as may be necessary to enable them to execute the warrant.
18. The Court on being satisfied, on the affidavit of one of the officers having the warrant for execution, that there are no reasonable means of executing the warrant without breaking such outer doors or windows, may grant an order in writing, addressed to a bailiff of the Court, authorizing him to break open, or have broken open, such doors and windows. Before executing such order, however, the bailiff shall inform any persons or person in or about the building, that he has such order and that he is about to act on it unless the doors or windows are opened.
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19. The bailiffs may impound or otherwise. secure the property seized, in or on the house or premises, chargeable with the rent, or may
remove the same.
Suspension or release of distress.
Costs.
PART III..
Of application to discharge distresses and of compensation.
20. The debtor, or any other person alleging himself to be the owner of any property seized under this Ordinance, may, at any time within five days from such seizure, on twenty-four hours' notice to the party who obtained the warrant and to the bailiff, setting out the facts on which the claim is founded, verified on affidavit, apply to the Court, to discharge or suspend the warrant or to release a distrained article; and the Court may discharge or suspend such warrant or release such article accordingly, upon such terms as it thinks just.
21. Upon any such application, the costs attending it and attending the issue and execution of the warrant, shall be in the discretion of the Court, and shall be paid as the Court directs.
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