Levy of Fines Act, 1823

Where party subject to fines, &c. resides or has removed out of jurisdiction of sheriff, &c. the sheriff shall issue his warrant to the sheriff, &c acting for the place where the party is or where his goods are found, requiring him to execute the writ, &c.

3. In all cases where the party incurring or subject to any fine, issue, amerciament, forfeited recognizance, sum or sums of money to be paid in lieu or satisfaction of them, or any of them, shall reside or shall have fled or removed from or out of the jurisdiction of the sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, in which any such fine, issue, amerciament, forfeited recognizance, sum or sums of money to be paid in lieu or satisfaction of them, or any of them, shall have been incurred, imposed, or forfeited, or become due, it shall be lawful for such sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, and he is hereby authorized and required, to issue his warrant, together with a copy of the writ, directed to the sheriff, bailiff, or other officer acting for the county, riding, city, borough, or place in which such person shall then reside or be, or in which any goods or chattels or other property shall be found, requiring such sheriff, bailiff, or other officer to execute such writ; and every such last-mentioned sheriff, bailiff, or other officer is hereby authorized and required to act in all respects under such warrant, in the same manner as if the original writ had been delivered to him by order of the court of the general or quarter sessions of the county, riding, city, borough, or place for which such sheriff, bailiff, or other officer shall act; and the said sheriff, bailiff, or other officer is hereby required, within thirty days after the receipt of such warrant, to return to the sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, from whom he shall have received the same, what he shall have done in the execution of such process, and whether the party shall have given good and sufficient security to appeal at the ensuing general or quarter sessions to be held for the county, riding, city, borough, or place from which the writ issued, and, in case a levy shall have been made, to pay over all monies received in pursuance of the warrant to the sheriff, bailiff, or other officer from whom he shall have received the same.

[S. 4 rep. 50 & 51 Vict. c. 55. (Sheriffs).]