23Indemnity for sheriff and purchaser

23 Indemnity for sheriff and purchaser

No such sheriff or other officer, nor any deputy, agent, bailiff, or servant of a sheriff or other officer, nor any person who purchases any hay, straw, chaff, turnips, grass or grasses, or other produce and things hereinbefore mentioned under the provisions aforesaid, nor the servant of such person, shall be deemed or taken to be a trespasser, by reason of his coming upon or remaining in possession of any barns or other buildings, yards, or fields, for the purpose of threshing out or consuming any straw, hay, turnips, or other produce hereinbefore mentioned under the provisions aforesaid, or for doing any matter or thing whatsoever fit and necessary to be done for the purpose of executing the same and carrying into effect all stipulations contained in any agreement made under such provisions, though such acts are done by or on behalf of such sheriff or other officer, or by such person or his servant, after the return of the process under which such sheriff or other officer has acted.