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1672 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1883 .


Distraints for Rent.


and any person wilfully and knowingly aiding or assisting such tenant or
lessee or person in such fraudulent removal or carrying away, shall be

deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour.

Police may 41. It shall be lawful for any Police officer to stop and detain, until
stop removal
of furniture . due enquiry can be made, all carts , hand carts, and carriages , and all
persons, engaged between the hours of 8 P.M, and 6 A.M. in removing the
furniture of any premises.


Protecting 42. Where any distress shall be made for any sum of money to be
clause.
levied by virtue of this Ordinance , the distress itself shall not be deemed
unlawful, nor the party making the same be deemed a trespasser, on
account of any defect or want of form in the proceeding relating thereto ,
nor shall the party distraining be deemed a trespasser from the beginning
on account of any irregularity which shall afterwards be committed by

the party so distraining, but the person aggrieved by such irregularity
may recover satisfaction for the special damages in an action as provided
by section 24.




PART VII .


General Provision .


Exemptions. 43. Nothing herein contained shall be held to apply to rents due to
the Crown .

Interpre 44. The word “ Court " or the words " Supreme Court " as used in
tation clause.
this Ordinance shall mean unless otherwise expressed The Supreme Court
in its Summary Jurisdiction.

Suspending 45. This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be here
clause.
after proclaimed by the Governor.