Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845

Distress how to be levied.

138. Where in this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, any sum of money, whether in the nature of penalty, costs, or otherwise, is directed to be levied by distress, such sum of money shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the party liable to pay the same; and the overplus arising from the sale of such goods and chattels, after satisfying such sum of money, and the expences of the distress and sale shall be returned, on demand, to the party whose goods shall have been distrained.