9Tenant or person holding over to pay double value: No equitable relief from penalty

9 Tenant or person holding over to pay double value: No equitable relief from penalty

Where any tenant for any term of life, lives, or years, or other person who is in or comes into possession of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments by, from, or under, or by collusion with such tenant, wilfully holds over any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, after the determination of such term, and after demand made and notice in writing given for delivering the possession thereof by his landlord or lessor, or the person to whom the remainder or reversion of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments belongs, or his agent thereunto lawfully authorized, then such person so holding over shall, for and during the time he so holds over or keeps the person entitled out of possession of the said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as aforesaid, pay to the person so kept out of possession, his executors, administrators, or assigns, at the rate of double the yearly value of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments so detained for so long a time as the same are detained, to be recovered by action; against the recovering of which penalty there shall be no relief in equity.