Section 17Part 3 — Costs of Distress for Payment of Rents; Delivery of List of Distrained; Costs and Charges
How parties aggrieved by higher charges are to proceed to obtain redress
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If any person, levies, takes or receives from any other person, or retains or takes from the produce of any goods sold for the payment of such rent, any other or greater costs and charges than are set down in the First Schedule; or makes any charge for any act, matter or thing mentioned in the First Schedule, and not done, the party aggrieved by such practices may apply to a Justice for the redress of his grievance so occasioned; whereupon such Justice shall summon the person complained of to appear before him at a reasonable time fixed in such summons and shall examine such complaint by all legal ways and means; and also hear in like manner the defence of the person or persons complained of; and if it appears to such Justice that the person complained of has levied, taken, received or had other and greater costs and charges than are fixed in the said Schedule or made any charge for any matter or thing mentioned in the said Schedule, such act, matter or thing not having been done; such Justice shall order and adjudge treble the amount of the moneys so unlawfully taken to be paid by the person so having acted to the party who thus has preferred his complaint thereof, together with full costs; and in case of non-payment of any moneys or costs so ordered to be paid, such Justice shall forthwith issue his warrant to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the party ordered to pay such moneys or costs; rendering the overplus, if any, to the owner, after the payment of the charges of such distress and sale: and in case no sufficient distress can be had, such Justice shall, by warrant under his hand, commit the party to prison there to remain until such order or judgment be satisfied.