Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Act, 1831

Any justice of peace, landlord, or his bailiff, may seize stills, &c.

21. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace who shall find any still, still head, or worm of a still in possession of any person, without a sufficient licence being produced for keeping the same, and for any landlord or proprietor of any land or premises on which the same shall be found, or his steward or bailiff, to seize such still, still head, or worm, and to convey and deliver the same to the next officer of excise, who shall take such still, still head, or worm into his custody, and secure the same, in like manner as if such still, still head, or worm had been seized by him; and it shall in like manner be lawful for any justice of the peace, landlord, or proprietor or steward or bailiff, to seize any low wines, singlings, wort, wash, pot ale, in the possession of any person not entitled by law to have the same in possession, and to spill and destroy all such low wines, singlings, wort, wash, pot ale, and corn or grain making into malt, rep. 43 & 44 Vict. c. 20. s. 49.