A dialogue between a Country Gentleman and Lawyer upon Doctrine of distress for rent; shewing what things may and what may not be taken at common law--The reasons why such things could not be taken-The several alterations and amendments which have been made in that remedy by divers acts of parliament, with observations on those statutes-The time and manner of making such distress-The difference between a distress of corn and other things-How to use the things distrained-When to sell them, and what steps are necessary to be taken previous to the sale-The punishments tenants are liable to who fraudulently remove their goods off the premisses to defraud their landlords-The penalties persons are subject to who aid and assist tenants in the removal or concealment of the goods-The manner of recovering those penalties-The difference between taking the distress out of pound and rescuing it before impounded, with the consequences-The effects of making an illegal distress, and the manner of curing any irregularity in the making thereof, with a variety of observations upon this subject
By: By a Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, law-printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.; For J. Wilkie, at no. 71. St. Paul's Church-yard, and P. Ulrich, in the Inner-Temple Lane.
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Distress (Law); Early works to 1800; Landlord and tenant
Notes: Price from imprint: Price 1 s. 6 d.

ESTC T472323