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Execution of decrees.
Punishment of persons taking cattle or goods under any decree or dismiss between sunset and sunrise.
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148. If any cattle or goods shall be taken and carried away under any decree or dismiss, or under colour of any decree or dismiss obtained upon any civil bill, between the hours of sunset and sunrise, the person or persons so taking and carrying away the same shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall suffer such punishment by fine or imprisonment, or both, as to the court who shall try the case shall seem meet; and in any indictment for this offence it shall be sufficient to allege generally that the party or parties fraudulently, contrary to the intent of this Act, carried away such cattle or goods between the hours of sunset and sunrise, without describing more particularly the circumstances of such offence; and the property in the goods and cattle so taken shall not be altered by any sale thereof.
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