41Penalty for fraudulent removal

41 Penalty for fraudulent removal

In case any tenant fraudulently removes and conveys away his goods or chattels as aforesaid, or in case any person wilfully and knowingly aids or assists any such tenant in such fraudulent removal or conveying away of any part of his goods or chattels or in concealing the same, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the landlord from whose estate such goods and chattels were fraudulently carried off as aforesaid double the value of the goods by him or them respectively carried off or concealed as aforesaid, to be recovered by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.