Section 19Part 3 — Costs of Distress for Payment of Rents; Delivery of List of Distrained; Costs and Charges
Penalty for unfounded complaint
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Such Justice, if he finds that the complaint of the party aggrieved is not well founded, may order and adjudge costs not exceeding forty dollars, to be paid to the party complained against; which order shall be carried into effect and levied and paid in such manner, and with like power of commitment, as is hereinbefore directed as to the order and judgment founded on such original complaint:
Provided that nothing herein contained shall empower such Justice to make any order or judgment against the landlord for whose benefit any such distress has been made, unless such landlord has personally levied such distress:
Provided that no person who is aggrieved by any distress for rent, or by any proceedings had in the course thereof, or by any costs and charges levied upon him in respect of the same, shall be barred from any legal or other suit or remedy which he might have had before the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight excepting so far as any complaint to be preferred by virtue of this Law has been determined by the order and judgment of the Justice before whom it has been heard and determined; and which order and judgment shall and may be given in evidence under the plea of the general issue in all cases where the matter of such complaint shall be made the subject of any action.