A dialogue between a country gentleman and a lawyer, upon the doctrine of distress for rent

shewing what things may and 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 Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn

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