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Item 31
App. IIA]
Distress for Rent Act 1737
[1987 Ed.
leases are derived, had been still kept on foot and continued, and the chief landlord and landlords shall have and be intitled to such and the same remedy by distress or entry in and upon the messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments comprised in any such under-lease for the rents and duties reserved by such new lease, so far as the same exceed not the rents and duties reserved in the lease out of which such under-lease was derived, as they would have had in case such former lease had been still continued or as they would have had in case the respective under-leases had been renewed under such new principal lease, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Item 33
THE DISTRESS FOR RENT ACT 1737
(II Geo. 2 c. 19)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 6, p. 147]
An Act for the more effectual securing the Payment of Rents, and
preventing Frauds by Tenants.
Preamble.
Whereas the several laws heretofore made for the better security of rents, and to prevent frauds committed by tenants, have not proved sufficient to obtain the good ends and purposes designed thereby, but rather the fraudulent practices of tenants, and the mischief intended by the said Acts to be prevented have of late years increased, to the great loss and damage of their lessors or landlords: For remedy whereof, may it please your most excellent Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that
[1.] Landlords may distrain and sell goods fraudulently carried off the premises. From and after the twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight, in case any tenant or tenants, lessee or lessees for life or lives, term of years, at will, sufferance, or otherwise, of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the demise or holding whereof any rent is or shall be reserved, due, or made payable, shall fraudulently or clandestinely convey away, or carry off or from such premises, his, her, or their goods or chattels, to prevent the landlord or lessor, landlords or lessors, from distraining the same for arrears of rent so reserved, due, or made payable, it shall and may be lawful to and for every landlord or lessor, landlords or lessors, within England, dominion of Wales, or the town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any person or persons by him, her, or them for that
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Item 31
App. IIA]
Distress for Rent Act 1737
[1987 Ed.
leases are derived, had been still kept on foot and continued, and the chief landlord and landlords shall have and be intitled to such and the same remedy by distress or entry in and upon the messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments comprised in any such under- lease for the rents and duties reserved by such new lease, so far as the same exceed not the rents and duties reserved in the lease out of which such under-lease was derived, as they would have had in case such former lease had been still continued or as they would have had in case the respective under-leases had been renewed under such new principal lease, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Item 33
THE DISTRESS FOR RENT ACT 1737
(II Geo. 2 c. 19)
[Extracted from Halsbury's Statutes of England (2nd edition), Vol. 6, p. 147]
An Act for the more effectual securing the Payment of Rents, and
preventing Frauds by Tenants.
Preamble.
Whereas the several laws heretofore made for the better security of rents, and to prevent frauds committed by tenants, have not proved sufficient to obtain the good ends and purposes designed thereby, but rather the fraudulent practices of tenants, and the mischief intended by the said Acts to be prevented have of late years increased, to the great loss and damage of their lessors or landlords: For remedy whereof, may it please your most excellent Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that
[1.] Landlords may distrain and sell goods fraudulently carried off the premisses. From and after the twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty eight, in case any tenant or tenants, lessee or lessees for life or lives, term of years, at will, sufferance, or otherwise, of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the demise or holding whereof any rent is or shall be reserved, due, or made payable, shall fraudulently or clandestinely convey away, or carry off or from such premises, his, her, or their goods or chattels, to prevent the landlord or lessor, landlords or lessors, from distraining the same for arrears of rent so reserved, due, or made payable, it shall and may be lawful to and for every landlord or lessor, landlords or lessors, within. England, dominion of Wales, or the town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any person or persons by him, her, or them for that
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