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Landlord and Tenant Act 1935
44Treble damages for pound-breach
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44 Treble damages for pound-breach
Upon any pound-breach or rescue of goods or chattels distrained for rent, the person aggrieved thereby shall, in any action for the wrong thereby sustained, recover treble damages and costs of suit against the offender in any such rescue or pound-breach, or against the owner of the goods distrained, in case the same be afterwards found to have come to his use or possession.