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No. 1 of 1883. DISTRESS FOR RENT.
Distraint after satisfaction of execution.
Persons allowed to apply for distress warrant.
Right of one of several parties interested to institute proceedings.
application is made within the said time, the Registrar shall, out of the first money to be received by him from the officer executing such writ or warrant, pay over to the person obtaining such distress warrant the amount thereof: Provided that if the amount mentioned in the distress warrant exceeds the amount due for six months' rent, the Registrar shall pay the amount of rent due for six months and the costs and no more.
33. If any execution is paid off after the issue of a distress warrant, the bailiff shall immediately execute the distress warrant.
34. The following persons may, either personally or by their attorneys or agents, apply for warrants to distrain for arrears of rent due to the estates represented by them; that is to say:-
(1) executors or administrators of any lessor or landlord or person entitled to receive rents;
(2) guardians for infants;
(3) committees of lunatics for the lunatics;
(4) receivers appointed by courts for the estate over or for which they are appointed;
(5) assignees and trustees in bankruptcy for the estate of the bankrupt;
(6) mortgagees for the property mortgaged, if the mortgagee is in possession;
(7) trustees for the estate over which the trust extends;
(8) lessees against their underlessees;
(9) the Registrar for premises seized under execution, if rented to tenants by the person against whom the execution is issued, or otherwise rented so that the rent is payable to such person; and
(10) married women, with or without the concurrence of their husbands, for arrears of rent due on property held by them to their sole and separate use.
35. Where a right to distrain accrues to parties jointly interested or together interested in any premises, such as coparceners, joint tenants, tenants in common, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, partners, or otherwise, pro-
168
No. 1 of 1883. DISTRESS FOR RENT.
Distraint after satis- faction of execution.
Persons allowed to apply for distress warrant.
Right of one of several parties interested to institute
proceedings.
application is made within the said time, the Registrar shall, out of the first money to be received by him from the officer executing such writ or warrant, pay over to the person obtaining such distress warrant the amount thereof: Provided that if the amount mentioned in the distress warrant exceeds the amount due for six months' rent, the Registrar shall pay the amount of rent due for six months and the costs and no more.
33. If any execution is paid off after the issue of a distress warrant,
the bailiff shall immediately execute the distress
warrant.
34. The following persons may, either personally or by their attorneys or agents, apply for warrants to distrain for arrears of rent due to the estates represented by them; that is to say:-
(1) executors or administrators of any lessor or landlord or person entitled to receive rents;
(2) guardians for infants;
(3) committees of lunatics for the lunatics;
(4) receivers appointed by courts for the estate over or for which they are appointed;
(5) assignees and trustees in bankruptcy for the estate of the bankrupt;
(6) mortgagees for the property mortgaged, if the mortgagee is in possession;
(7) trustees for the estate over which the trust extends;
(8) lessees against their underlessees;
(9) the Registrar for premises seized under execution, if rented to tenants by the person against whom the execution is issued, or otherwise rented so that the rent is payable to such person; and
(10) married women, with or without the concurrence of their husbands, for arrears of rent due on property held by them to their sole and separate use.
35. Where a right to distrain accrues to parties jointly interested or together interested in any premises, such as coparceners, joint tenants, tenants in common, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, partners, or otherwise, pro-
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