Section 3Part 2 — Rights of Landlords
Remedy for landlord for fraudulent removal of goods liable to distress
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In case any tenant or lessee, 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, fraudulently or clandestinely conveys away or carries off or from such premises his goods or chattels, to prevent the landlord or lessor from distraining the same for arrears of rent so reserved due or made payable, it shall be lawful to and for every landlord or lessor within the Islands, or any person by him for that purpose lawfully empowered, within the space of thirty days next ensuing such conveying away or carrying off of such goods or chattels, to take and seize such goods and chattels wherever the same are found as a distress for the arrears of rent; to sell or otherwise dispose of in such manner as if the said goods and chattels had actually been distrained by such lessor or landlord in and upon such premises, for such arrears of rent, any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided that no landlord, lessor or other person entitled to such arrears of rent shall take or seize any such goods or chattels as a distress for the same which shall be sold bona fide and for valuable consideration before such seizure made to any person not privy to such fraud, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.