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Tenants, &c. so removing, or assistants, forfeit double to landlords, &c.
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III. And to deter tenants from such fraudulent conveying away their goods and chattles, and others from wilfully aiding or assisting therein, or concealing the same, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty two if any such grantor, fee-farmer, tenant or lessee, shall fraudulently remove and convey away his or her goods or chattles as aforesaid, or if any person or persons shall wilfully and knowingly aid or assist any such grantor, fee-farmer, tenant or lessee, in such fraudulent conveying away, carrying off of any part of his or her goods or chattles, or in concealing the same; all and every person and persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the landlord or landlords, lessor or lessors, from whose estates such goods and chattles were fraudulently carried off as aforesaid, or to the person or persons intitled to such rent-charge or fee-farm rent, double the value of the goods by him, her, or them respectively carried off or concealed as aforesaid; to be recovered by action of debt in any of his Majesty's courts of record in Dublin, wherein no essoign, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed, nor more than one imparlance. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1878.]
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