39Seizure and sale of goods fraudulently removed

39 Seizure and sale of goods fraudulently removed

In case any tenant 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 or made payable, shall fraudulently or clandestinely convey away or carry off or from such premises his goods or chattels to prevent the landlord from distraining the same for arrears of rent so reserved or made payable, then such landlord or any person by him for that purpose lawfully empowered, within the space of 30 days next ensuing such conveying away or carrying off such goods and chattels, may take and seize such goods and chattels wherever the same are found, as a distress for the said arrears of rent; and the same may sell or otherwise dispose of in such manner as if the said goods and chattels had actually been distrained by such landlord in and upon such premises for such arrears of rent.