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So if upon demurrer judgment for avowant.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if judgment in any of the courts aforesaid, be given upon demurrer for the avowant, or him that makes cognizance for any rent, the court shall, at the prayer of the defendant, award a writ to inquire of the value of such distress, and upon the return thereof judgment shall be given for the avowant, or him that makes cognizance as aforesaid, for the arrears alledged to be behind in such avowry or cognizance, if the goods or cattle so distrained shall amount to the value; and in case they shall not amount to that value, then for so much as the said goods or cattle so distrained amount unto, together with his full costs of suit, and shall have like execution as aforesaid.
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