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EJECTMENT AND DISTRESS (IRELAND) ACT 1846 - SECT 16

Party aggrieved by another taking higher charges than those mentioned in schedule (B) may apply to a justice of the peace.

16. If any person ... whatsoever shall in any manner levy, take, or receive
from any person ... whatsoever, or retain or take from the produce of any
goods sold for the payment of such ... taxes, ... impositions, or assessments,
any other or greater costs and charges than are mentioned and set down in the
said schedule, or make any charge whatsoever for any act, matter, or thing
mentioned in the said schedule and not really done, it shall be lawful for the
party ... aggrieved by such practices to apply to any one justice of the peace
for the county, city, town, and acting for the division where such distress
shall have been made or in any manner proceeded in, for the redress of his,
... grievance so occasioned, whereupon such justice shall summon the person
... complained of to appear before the justices of the petty sessions for such
district at a reasonable time to be fixed in such summons, and such justices
shall examine into the matter of such complaint by all legal ways and means,
and also hear in like manner the defence of the person ... complained of; and
if it shall appear to such justices that the person ... complained of shall
have levied, taken, received, or had other and greater costs and charges than
are mentioned or fixed in the schedule (B) hereunto annexed, or made any
charge for any matter or thing mentioned in the said schedule, such act,
matter, or thing not having been really done, such justices shall order and
adjudge treble the amount of the monies so unlawfully taken to be paid by the
person ... so having acted to the party ... who shall thus have preferred his,
... complaint thereof, together with full costs; ....

S.17 rep. by SLR 1892


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