ANALYTICALLY ARRANGED IN The order oF SIR W. BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES: WITH A GRAISBERRY AND CAMPBELL, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 1812. CHAP. I. Of the Redress of Private Wrongs BY THE MERE ACT OF THE PARTIES. THE statutes which respect the remedies for the re- Book III. dress of civil injuries or private wrongs, are next in order; and obviously follow those which have been stated in the two preceding parts of this digest, which were conversant about the rights of persons in their various characters, capacities, and relations. $1. Beasts of the dit ess As to the remedy of distress considered with relation to the things which may be distrained: It is a provision plough. Sc. of the 51. Hen. 3. st. 4 E. & I. that no man of religion, exempted from nor other, shall be distrained by his beasts that gain his 51. H n.3.st.4. land, nor by his sheep, for the king's debt, nor the debt E. & L. of any other man, nor other cause, but until they can find another distress sufficient; except impounding of beasts that a man findeth in his ground damage feasant. And the c. 12 E. & I. c. 5. s. 3. Eng. 7 W. 3. c. 92. 28. Edw. 1. st. 3. c. 12. E. & I. also exempts beasts of 28 Edw.1. st.3. the plough from distress for the king's debt, so long as a man may find another. By the 2 W. & M. st. 1. c. 5. 2 W. & M.st.1. s. 3. Eng. every person having rent arrear upon any demise, lease or contract, may seize and secure any sheaves & 5. Ir. or cocks of corn, or corn loose or in the straw, or hay Corn in sheaves, lying or being in any barn or granary, or upon any hovel, &c may be stack or rick, or otherwise upon any part of the land or ground charged with such rent; and lock up or detainthe same in the place where it shall be found, until it VOL. II. shall B distrained. |